[OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrlists at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 6 12:06:15 GMT 2009


Tal wrote:
>Sent: 05 March 2009 11:36 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice
>
>Hi,
>I apologize if this is not the proper list.
>
>In Israel we try to tag all names with "name","name:he","name:en", and we
>put the same value in "name" and "name:he".
>For example:
>  name=1234
>  name:he=1234
>  name:en=abcd
>
>I would like to avoid repeating 1234 twice.
>
>Is there a feature recognized by the renderer software packages that allows
>me to write something like this:
>  name=$(name:he)
>  name:he=1234
>  name:en=abcd
>
Currently no. At the moment the default renderers as far as I am aware only
use the name tag to literally display the value.

Cheers

Andy






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