[OSM-dev] Escaping characters in node/way tags
SteveC
steve at asklater.com
Thu Mar 1 12:17:47 GMT 2007
its worse than that, its === ;;; IIRC.
fixed in the rails port, of course :-|
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Currently node tags are stored in the OSM db as a string like this:
>
> highway=primary;name=High Street;ref=A429
>
> whereas way tags are stored in a separate table with 'k' and 'v' columns.
>
> From this I'm concluding:
>
> 1. ';' in node keys/values should be escaped as \;
> 2. '=' in node keys/values should be escaped as \=
> 3. No escaping is necessary for way keys/values
>
> Am I right?
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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