Colin Smale wrote:
> If we were looking at this problem as if we were
> designing OSM on a clean whiteboard
When OSM was first designed on a clean whiteboard[1], multiple values were
in fact possible. An object could have
name=Bridge Street
name=Banbury Road
and the API was happy - though, in practice, no (/very little) software
supported it.
This ability was only removed in API 0.6:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-January/033437.html
Richard
[1] beer mat
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