On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:03:26PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote: > We have had an informal convention for a long time to use a semicolon > (;) in tag values to separate multiple values, for instance > "ref=I 70; US 40" to denote that there are two numbered roads on a way. > But most software out there doesn't actually interpret this in any > special way. > > If you know of any software that actually does interpret this specially, > please tell me. I am trying to get an idea where and how this is used in > the real world. You can answer here on the list or write to me > privately, I'll summarize for the list later. Thanks!
I finally wrote down what I found out about semicolons in tag values and what I think about them. Turns out there isn't much software that interprets them and where it does, only in special cases. Thanks to all who replied and sorry that I haven't mentioned every case in my blog post. http://blog.jochentopf.com/2013-09-23-semicolons-in-osm-tags.html Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.jochentopf.com/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
