[OSM-talk] Empty tag values

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/9/9 Roland Olbricht <roland.olbricht at gmx.de>

> Dear all,
>
> I just learned that the main API does allow empty tag values, e.g.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2411598379
>
> However, JOSM does not allow to set empty tags (it removes the tag
> instead),
> and that was never a reason for a bug report, i.e. at least half of all OSM
> users never missed them. And I assume several other software doesn't
> properly
> handle empty tags too.
>
> Should empty tags be allowed? Or should empyt tags silently treated as the
> tag
> being absent?
>


+1, it doesn't seem reasonable to allow empty tag values, nor values
consisting of only spaces.

cheers,
Martin
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