[OSM-newbies] avoid repeating the name tag twice
Dave Stubbs
osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Wed Mar 11 15:03:22 GMT 2009
2009/3/11 Tal <tal.bav at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Michel Barakat <bmichel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So an alternative plausible solution could be to have a mechanism
>> which refers to one of the name:xx, such as Tal has suggested. We
>> could agree on some escape character that is used inside the tag
>> content ($ or \ or whatever is not commonly used). We would have
>> something like that:
>> name=$(name:fr)
>> name:fr="French Here"
>> name:en="English Here"
>> name:ar="Arabic Here"
>
> I uploaded a patch to osmarender, to do this and a little more. I'll post
> some more details in the dev mailing list.
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1643
And I've commented on both that it's not a good idea, and really
shouldn't happen.
This e-mail's just to complete the set.
Dave
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