I meant that there is a value missing "between the pipes", which at a
slightly higher semantic level can mean "use the default". A definition
which varies according to position doesn't feel well-formed to me.
//colin
On 2016-01-20 08:10, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Colin Smale wrote
>
>> The "lanes" tag family uses a different delimiter ("|"), sometimes
>> together with a semicolon to make a kind of 2-d array. A double pipe
>> ("||") indicates a missing value there. Wouldn't it be nice if we were
>> consistent?
>
> That is new to me. My understanding of a double pipe is that described here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/lanes_General_Extension#Default_values
> which indicates that a double pipe means one or two default values,
> depending on the position.
> At the end of the value, it means two default values.
>
> Gerd
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Removing-name-1-and-alt-name-1-from-Wiki-tp5864465p5865207.html
> Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tagging mailing list
> Tagging@openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
_______________________________________________
Tagging mailing list
Tagging@openstreetmap.org
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
