[Tagging] Reviving the conditions debate

[aighes]

Am 13.06.2012 17:07, schrieb Martin Vonwald:
> 2012/6/13 aighes<osm at aighes.de>:
>> Am 13.06.2012 16:30, schrieb Martin Vonwald:
>>
>>> 2012/6/13 aighes<osm at aighes.de>:
>>>> For me the system is clear.
>>>> <basekey>:<condition_1>:<condition_2>:...:<condition_n>=<value>.
>>> How about this:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:parking:lane
>>>
>>> The basekey is parking:lane. How do you know that lane is not a condition?
>> Yes...but there is the problem? If you search for information for
>> parking:lane, you can remove this string from the key and all conditions
>> will left.
> The problem is that you don't have a clear separation between key and
> condition. In my opinion it would improve readability for people (not
> programs) if we separate those two clearly.
Ok human readability is a good point. But works only til we have a key 
like foo?bar=* ;-)
Also a :: would be possible.

Henning