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

[Stefan de Konink]

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.

Except for editors like Potlatch that use intermediate layers to access 
the API and screw up the uniqueness. But all that will be solved soon :)


Stefan