[OSM-dev] What do we do with tags with empty keys or values?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I thought about a script that would fetch those objects, remove the  
> empty
> tags and write them back via the API, but some of them result  
> repeatedly
> in the error 500...

I have a half-finished script named "fixbot" that goes through the  
planet file, calls a callback function for each object it finds  
there, and gives the callback the opportunity to request saving an  
altered version of the object to the database server. If the callback  
does this, the current version is first retreieved from the database  
and compared to what was in the planet file (so we don't operate on  
old data), and if it is still the same, the change is commited. I  
haven't updated my script for 0.4 yet, and it isn't in SVN yet -  
email me if you want a copy.

Bye
Frederik

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