[Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

[Alan Mintz]

At 2009-11-12 15:36, Chris Hunter wrote:
>While this is pretty straightforward for a human to read, the API has no 
>real way of handling multiple values on the same tag.

? I thought semi-colons were the accepted way of handling this, e.g. 
shop=car_repair;garden_center;ferrets. I've done a lot of tagging this way.

Granted, it's expensive to query the database for a particular value this 
way, which is apparently why the other method became more favored with 
newer proposals, right?

>A slightly more machine-readable set of attributes would read like this:
>
>shop:supermarket=yes
>shop:hairdresser=yes
...

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>