[OSM-dev] Escaping characters in node/way tags

[SteveC]

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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