How to tag streets named after multiple people?

[mattsches]

Not an issue per se, and probably more an OSM-related topic: There are streets in our city that are named after multiple people, e.g. after siblings. It's either explicit ("Geschwister-Scholl-Straße") or implicit (just a surname, but the municipal archiv suggests the street is named after two brothers).

According to the OSM wiki, it could be tagged as name:etymology:wikidata=value1;value2, but there are alternative options, e.g. numbered suffix.

IMHO using the semicolon should be fine, I've tagged objects in this manner before in different contexts. But I suppose the processing scripts of this project wouldn't be able handle this correctly? I haven't taken a closer look, though.

What do you think?

I am happy to provide a PR if we decide on way to handle this.

[jbelien]

Multiple values are already handled in the data process ; separating the Wikidata items identifier with a semicolon in name:etymology:wikidata is indeed the way to go!

Here is an example in Brussels: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3393466

[mattsches]

Wow, I really should have looked at the code first! Thanks for the quick answer and the example, we will map the affected streets accordingly. 🙂