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

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:30:01 +0000, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> 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.

JOSM and Potlatch maybe but not all clients.
Osmosis has a list of tags and so do all the IDataStores provided in
LibOSM is Traveling Salesman. They can handle multiple values per key
just fine.

Marcus