[OSM-talk] Several map features at the same place

[Alex Mauer]

Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> How are several map features at the same place, e.g. a building with a
> bakery, a bank and a police station, represented?
> Several adjacent nodes? Or a single one? If the latter, how are features
> with the same key (but different value) handled?
> From the Map Features page [1], I'd guess multiple values for the same
> key are separated by semicolons (see amenity=bank), but neither the
> Elements page [2] nor the Data Primitives page [3] mentions that.

semicolons, yes.  Technically, it's possibly to assign the same key
multiple times, but I don't know that any editor software allows it due
to concerns over misuse of the feature.  It should probably be allowed
though.

-- 
Alex Mauer "hawke"

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