[OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:

> Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My
> intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d
>

+1

I think using a semicolon-delimited list is better than a potentially
open-ended set of keys such as "alt_name_x", and already has precedent.
While it is true that semicolon as a multi-value separator is not written
as a "law" of OSM tagging, it is quite frequent enough to be a de facto
tagging guideline.
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