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Tag Help (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 months ago by sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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I'm adding a business that is primarily for surfing and also has some skateboard accessories. Can I use multiple tags to designate this?

"shop=surf;skate"

Would that work? On the OSM wiki it says under cuisine you can use multiple tags but I don't see anything saying if it's proper to do that with a key for shop.

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[–] banana@communick.news 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I tend to avoid stacking primary tags, like shop. I would use shop=sports combined with sports=surf;skate.

[–] Ben_on_Lemmy@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Wiki documents shop=sports + sports=…;…

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Asport#Used_on_shop=sports

This makes sense, as in: “here is a sports shop which has articles for 2 types of sports.”

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why do you avoid stacking primary tags?

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wiki also says this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Semi-colon_value_separator#When_NOT_to_use

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago

Ah, that's it! That looks to be the de-facto standard. Thank you very much