It's about time that renderers started supporting semicolon-delimited lists. Splitting apart a delimited string is a trivial programming task. I know, having worked as a programmer for the last 29 years. +1
Speaking as an ex-programmer, I completely agree <g> PHP, and other languages, actually have a built-in function to do that: split, explode, etc. Regds Dave On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:35 AM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > It's about time that renderers started supporting semicolon-delimited > lists. Splitting apart a delimited string is a trivial programming task. I > know, having worked as a programmer for the last 29 years. > > > > On March 28, 2015 11:09:10 PM CDT, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Just a note about using semicolon-delimited lists. Most renderers do not >> handle such lists very well so a tag like the following: >> >> amenity=bar;restaurant;picnic_table;sanitary_dump_station >> >> might not show you all of the amenities. There have been many discussions >> about this issue on this list and elsewhere >> >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:39 AM, David Bannon <dban...@internode.on.net> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:26 +0100, Marc Gemis wrote: >>> >>> > If I am on a large campsite I want to use "the map" to find my way to >>> > all amenities. If you have put everything on 1 node it's a pretty >>> > useless map, not ? >>> >>> Agree in principle Marc but don't think its always practical. I have >>> been to many camp grounds that are too big to walk around and bad >>> manners to drive (apparently aimlessly) around. Many National Park >>> toilets are drop toilets and, for obviously reasons need to be moved. >>> Fireplaces are often quite impromptu, we are marking they are allowed, >>> not where they are. >>> >>> I agree it would be nice to be able to zoom in and see where fixed >>> things are, highly desirable for the people there on site. But people >>> planning a trip, they just want to know fire places and toilets are >>> there, somewhere. Lets help the second group and then, if we can, the >>> first. >>> >>> David >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Swarthout >> Homer, Alaska >> Chiang Mai, Thailand >> Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> 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." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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