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 : > 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. cheers, Martin ___

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

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 wrote: > > > >> Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My > >> intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;

Re: [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 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

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 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 t

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 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 "alt_name_x", and

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 semic

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 p

[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 ac