[OSM-talk] Potlatch and the evil semicolons

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Tue May 27 15:05:28 BST 2008


On 5/27/08, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>
>  > There's a difference between
>  > allowing unknown tags, and the editor choosing to generate a tag which
>  > is pretty certain to be invalid, confusing or both.
>
>
> 'taint "choosing" of its own accord, it's following the guidelines in
>  the FAQ. But like I said in the first message I'll have a look at
>  providing "more guidance" or "less subtle" or whatever. As ever it
>  takes about 287364 times more time and energy to engage in a
>  protracted mailing list argument - and then you end up with a camel -
>  than it does to actually commit a fix.
>
>  Alternatively, it's all open source, svn is that way ------->

Well said. For some perspective:

Number of ways in the db with highway tags: 17,621,871
Number of highway tags containing semicolons: 211

Cheers,
Andy




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