Re: [talk-au] Use of equals symbol within keys

[Andrew Harvey]

On 21/08/12 11:35, Ben Johnson wrote:
> As a person with some coding experience, I find this use of = inside a
> key slightly disturbing, as = is the separator between a key and a
> value, plus this method requires duplication of the root element's
> original value.  I'm thinking the 2 keys are better written simply like
> 
> source:bicycle = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf
> source:cycleway = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf
> 

Defiantly. Feel free to fix this.

I would probably even use source_ref:bicycle in these cases where you
are pointing to a URL, but I'm not fussed either way, it is up to you.



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[talk-au] Use of equals symbol within keys

[Ben Johnson]

Was recently browsing OSM Inspector and it was throwing up a warning  
about some tags that had been used on parts of the F3 because an  
equals symbol appears in the key. Specifically these


source:bicycle=no = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf
source:cycleway=no = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf

See 
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=tagging&lon=151.17082&lat=-33.60765&zoom=15

As a person with some coding experience, I find this use of = inside a  
key slightly disturbing, as = is the separator between a key and a  
value, plus this method requires duplication of the root element's  
original value.  I'm thinking the 2 keys are better written simply  
like


source:bicycle = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf
source:cycleway = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf


I draw a comparison with use of source:xyz elsewhere - e.g. for  
speeds, names, etc... where we adopt this convention -


maxspeed = 110
source:maxspeed = sign

and not...

maxspeed = 110
source:maxspeed=110 = sign


There's very little in the wiki about use of = in a key, but it gets a  
brief mention toward the bottom of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like


Cheers,
BJ

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