[OSM-talk] Proposal process Wikipage - Adding note about the use of seperators for values

Steve Doerr doerr.stephen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 22:20:18 UTC 2019


On 04/12/2019 18:42, Yves wrote:
> The semicolon is one information out of many, I'm not sure we should 
> add this in the already long 'proposal process' page.

Note that there is a slightly cryptic reference in 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process#Compatibility_with_established_practices:

 > Syntactic conventions for new tags

 > There are some conventions about naming keys and values. Following 
them will help mappers to estimate the meaning of your tags without 
reading the documentation. Using a semicolon
 > should be considered especially carefully.

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Steve




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