Also, parsing a semicolon-delimited string into an array of strings is a simple task in most programming languages.
On November 24, 2014 5:35:21 PM CST, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/24/2014 11:51 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > > The semi-colon is not universally accepted, for good reasons. > Contrary > > to what you said, it should only be used if it is explicitly defined > as > > an option for that particular key. To introduce such a convention to > an > > old and widely used set of tags is not easy and requires a broad > > consensus, not a quick wiki page change. > > There was a discsussion on the talk/imports lists recently (September, > subject "Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags") where it > seemed to me that the consensus was to indeed have a > semicolon-delimited > list of names in alt_name, instead of having alt_name_1, alt_name_2 > etc. > like initially suggested in that thread. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" > E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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