Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-10 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-09-09 14:39 GMT+02:00 Andreas Goss andi...@t-online.de: Isn't this sometimes going to cause issues when it comes to the number of characters? this sounds like a rather hypothetical case. Do you have any real life examples? The max length of a value in osm tags is 255 characters AFAIK.

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 02:23:40PM -0500, Andrew Buck wrote: Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d Flo My understanding was that since almost nothing actually understands the ; separator that doing it as

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-09 Thread Jochen Topf
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 05:52:57PM -0500, Andrew Buck wrote: On 09/08/2014 05:44 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My intuitive answer would have been

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-09 Thread Andreas Goss
Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d Isn't this sometimes going to cause issues when it comes to the number of characters? __ openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:AndiG88‎

[OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:52:17PM -0500, Andrew Buck wrote: Are there any objections, or suggestions on how to do this better? And finally, if it is decided to carry out this action, is there someone who would be willing to actually carry out the change themselves with a mechanical edit

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d Flo My understanding was that since almost nothing actually understands the ; separator that doing it as multiple tags is the

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 08 September 2014, Andrew Buck wrote: My understanding was that since almost nothing actually understands the ; separator that doing it as multiple tags is the preferred system. That does not seem quite comprehensible to me. Note there have been placename imports using the

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d +1 I think using a semicolon-delimited list is better than a potentially open-ended set of keys such as

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2014 05:44 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d +1 I