[OSM-dev] Unhelpful error on upload

[Tom Hughes]

In message <fmm4fl$1vk$1 at ger.gmane.org>
          Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to upload a .gpx file I created today using LiveGps. (File
> available on request; it's 600k so I won't attach it.)
> 
> The upload tells me:
> 
> "4 errors prohibited this trace from being saved
> 
> There were problems with the following fields:
> 
>      * Tags is invalid
>      * Tags is invalid
>      * Tags is invalid
>      * Tags is invalid"
> 
> This is marvellously unhelpful, given that the file does not contain a
> tag or even the word "tags". Is there any way of figuring out what's wrong?

It's not complaining about the file (it hasn't even looked at the
contents of the file) but rather about the contents of the upload
form. Specifially about the tags field - most likely you have put
in a character it does not allow (/ ; , . and ? are not allowed)

> (Is it still worth uploading .gpx files if you've already done the
> mapping based on them?)

Yes.

Tom

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