[Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

moltonel 3x Combo moltonel at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 17:25:07 UTC 2015


On 23/01/2015, Никита <acroq3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> the classic example being the name key.
> This is bad example. We have many tags with their own semantic:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Key_Variations We don't need
> name_1, name_2 or name#1 or name#2 keys.

Of course when you can figure out names that are semantically
different, you use the specific tag. But it's not rare that a place
has two names that cannot be differentiated by semantic or popularity.
In those cases you have alt_name if you're lucky enough to only need
one extra name, and name_<number> if you need more values.

> There no point in using indexes in key. You need semantic subkey:
> color, length, size, visibility. Not meaningless integers. Again, my
> example several messages earlier:

Indexes and subkeys are two different usecases. Both are useful.

> name=purple
> name#2=orange
> name#3=green
>
> How do you query for green in overpass? In JOSM?

josm: name(#\d+)?=green
overpass: I don't know it enough



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