[OSM-dev] Disallowing certain characters in tag keys

Ulf Lamping ulf.lamping at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 17 19:54:55 BST 2010


Am 16.10.2010 22:31, schrieb Andreas Kalsch:
> I agree with
>
> whitespace - this can be very confusing
>
> "="
>
> To add:
>
> Make keys lowercase (or even remove diacritics), because keys are always
> simple names.

I've added a "Character" section to the page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like

... that tries to summarise this discussion.


We might not want to disallow characters, but letting the mappers know 
which characters to avoid is a good idea IMHO.

Please improve it if you like ...

Regards, ULFL



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