[OSM-talk] Old names

[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, David Janda wrote:

> It appears to me that the name_old tag is meant for one name. But what 
> to do if there are several? I am against the idea of name_old1 name_old2 
> and so on as these names I am refering to are in many cases so old that 
> the order is not known.

The recommended way of handling multiple values in a tag is usually to 
separate them with ";"
i.e. name_old=Foo;Bar;Baz

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