Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-28 Thread Brian Quinion
On 29 Nov 2014 00:26, "Lukas Sommer" wrote: > > Okay. I’ll try a summary: > > We have the choise between two systems: > > – semicolon system > > – alt_name_1 system I added support for alt_name_1 because this kept coming up and people were actively abusing alt_name:1 because it happened to work (

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-26 Thread Brian Quinion
On 25 November 2014 at 13:30, althio forum wrote: > I don't even know which keys are currently under use by Nominatim and other > data consumers and how that could evolve in the future. At the moment nominatim supports alt_name_[0-9]+:= for alt names I've added this to the wiki __

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-31 Thread Brian Quinion
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: > Total time 6 minutes > Hundreds of hours, yeah right. What you have given is an absolute minimum time for someone who already understands to actually edit the files. You've skipped research, testing and deployment. > The program I've been

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-30 Thread Brian Quinion
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Ross Scanlon wrote: >> Better yet - just don't change it.  This sort of change just isn't >> worth the pain and hundreds of developer hours that could be better >> spent on moving the project forward.  Yes - this sort of change might >> make the tag heirachy pretti

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Brian Quinion
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Brian Quinion > wrote: >> >> >> Discussing this for a day on the Tagging list is not enough for you to >> >> make >> >> this change. >> > >> > How

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] emergency=*

2010-07-29 Thread Brian Quinion
>> Discussing this for a day on the Tagging list is not enough for you to make >> this change. > > How much time should it take? I didn't really set a dead line but was > trying to get comments on the idea... A change that breaks every editor / renderer / search & data user ? 6 months minimum bef