[osmosis-dev] API 0.6 and unique keys

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

I just learned on OSM-dev that in 0.6 you can no longer
have more then one value for any key on an entity.

Any chance we can use this to replace the Tag-class with
a simple read-only Hashtable in the v0_6.Entity -class?
It should simplify a lot of code and be much faster for
accessing key-values for known keys.
e.g. looking up the "highway"-attribute of a large number
of ways now requires you to iterate over all attributes of
all these ways in O(m+n) time whereas we can reduce this
to O(m) -time and even end up with much simpler code.

PS:
I just finished making T.S. compile with osmosis-head for
api 0.6 after 2 days of coding. It introduced some bugs
with the osmbin-fileformat-code but I still hope to get
everything debugged and ready for the planned v1.0 -release
in parallel to the release of api 0.6 .
The new osmosis-plugins will have to wait until I found
the new bugs. (Coding all the entity-creation -code in
all the unit-tests again was a major piece of work. My
hands hurt.)

Marcus