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

[Jannis Achstetter]

Tom Hughes schrieb:
> In message <20070926184517.6gu1p6ebk0sgsw8g at webmail.systemed.net>
>           Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Alex Mauer wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> That's .. horrible.  Why only for nodes and segments?  How /should/ it
>>> be done then?  I take it there is no way for it to work, at least for
>>> nodes and segments (it works fine for ways...)
>>>       
>> AIUI semi-colons (and equals signs) are actually escaped when inserted
>> in the DB so you can theoretically use them. (They're escaped as ;;;
>> and ===, oddly.)
>>     
>
> Oh no they're not. SteveC has been known to claim that they are (and
> maybe in the pre-rails code they were) but in the current code I can
> assure you that no such escaping happens.
>
> Tom
>   

Maybe this should be clarified somewhere in the wiki?
I can still read "(for a bank that also has an ATM, use
*amenity=bank;atm*)" on Map Features. I tagged quite some nodes with
semicolons since that page said it can be done this way.

    Jannis
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