[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:30:01AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In practice keys are unique because although the API has never enforced 
> uniqueness pretty much every client does because all the clients use a 
> hash table of some sort to store tags.

Hash table, or associative array/hash/dictionary?  Hash tables have
mechanisms to deal with collisions.  I suppose I should just look at the
code…

Simon
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