[Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Fri Nov 13 13:14:19 GMT 2009


Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or area, thus the problem of multiple names isn't an issue any more. You place the nodes of the shops roughly where they are within the shopping centre.

If you do have something that has multiple names, you are better stating what the name is. For example if a bridge has a name, you could use name= for the street name that runs on top of the bridge, and name:bridge for the name of the bridge itself. I'm sure there are better examples.

Shaun

On 13 Nov 2009, at 09:15, Richard Shank wrote:

> So it the general consensus to use name = first name, name_1 = second_name, name_2 = third name instead of name=first name;second name; third name?  I've be adding names to motorway_junctions and I've see the semicolon format, so I started do the same myself.
> 
> Richard
> 
> Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> 
>> The semi colon approach has been a method in use for many years now, but it's generally avoided. Unfortunately we don't have database normalisation with our tagging system. The Keys must be unique. Previous version of the API allowed keys that were not unique, however nothing used it as the editors generally didn't support it, and it would give unpredictable results when coming to things like rendering, as either one would be used.
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>> Shaun
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>> On 13 Nov 2009, at 04:09, Chris Hunter wrote:
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>>> That's what database normalization addresses.  BTW, this is the first time I've heard of the semicolon approach.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
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>>> Unfortunately, that doesn't work.  The tags must be unique on the name
>>> side.  That's why you see name, name_1, name_2.
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