[OSM-talk] Who interprets semicolon in tag values?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

> Am 24/set/2013 um 09:54 schrieb Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>:
> 
> If the mapper who does the merge doesn't know which tag is
> right, he should not do the merge. He is mapping in the blind.


+1, surely, but how else could you get these contradicting values in the data? In my experience it is newbies who make these merges, without being aware of the reasons those ways are actually split, (similarly also happens with ways who have the same tags but are in different relations)

cheers,
Martin