[Tagging] Discussion about Multivalued Keys

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Wed Jan 27 18:53:58 UTC 2016


Now THAT I didn't see coming! 

Is this an alternative to add into the mix? If it was working at an API
level, I am curious what considerations led to the decision to actively
remove it in API0.6. 

--colin

On 2016-01-27 19:45, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> Colin Smale wrote: 
> 
>> If we were looking at this problem as if we were 
>> designing OSM on a clean whiteboard
> 
> When OSM was first designed on a clean whiteboard[1], multiple values were
> in fact possible. An object could have
> 
> name=Bridge Street
> name=Banbury Road
> 
> and the API was happy - though, in practice, no (/very little) software
> supported it.
> 
> This ability was only removed in API 0.6:
> 
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-January/033437.html
> 
> Richard
> 
> [1] beer mat
> 
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