[Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Thu May 6 01:10:23 BST 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:41 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 May 2010 06:12, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would think a semi-colon delimited value would be better in this
>> case - certainly better than "multiple POIs", and no less supported
>> than "multiple relations" (right?)
>
> If an app supports relations, it wouldn't matter if there is 1 or 10,
> however most software I've tried doesn't bother to expand multiple
> values separated by semicolons...

You're right, actually. But it seems like a pretty nasty hack to use
relations for this purpose, that is, simultaneously defining more than
1 value for a key. From the wiki: "relations are basically groups of
objects in which each object may take on a specific role."




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