[OSM-talk] amenity=vending_machine AND amenity=post_box: what about?

[Pierre-André Jacquod]

vegard a écrit :
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 06:40:59AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote:
>>> So personally I think duplicate keys would be the easiest and best way to
>>> tag such double-uses.
>>>
>>> Norbert
>>>
>> Just make two different nodes, each located closest to the amenity
>> concerned. There's nothing that makes it non-routable. It's just a
> 
> Well - apart from the fact that it actually makes it difficult to render
> In many cases, the supermarket *is* the post-office, 
I agree fully with it. Here for example, at railways stations (let say 
middle class) you can buy train tickets (hopefully), but also book your 
travel or get some foreign money. At the same desk, deserved by the same 
person. I really have here 3 amenities as one point. The easy answer of 
some people " map the world as it is... " is here just too short.

The fact that neither API 0.5 nor API 0.6 (will) support it is a good 
point for not using it. But not to forget to think about it ? Then in 
short, what is the process for API specifications inputs? :-)


by the way: I just had a look at 
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~kleptog/osm-0.5.dtd
<!ELEMENT node (tag*)>
<!ATTLIST node id   [...cut...]

<!ELEMENT tag EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST tag  k         CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST tag  v         CDATA #REQUIRED>

and from the current dtd definition, I could not see anything saying 
that it is forbidden to use twice the key amenity for a node or a way. 
Or did I missed something?

best regards
Pierre-André