[OSM-dev] Unhelpful error on upload

[Gervase Markham]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> 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)

Aha. Given that many tagging implementations expect tags to be separated 
with commas, would it be too much for the upload mechanism to strip out 
commas rather than barfing on them?

Also, perhaps:

"The 'tags' field you wrote contains an invalid character"

would be a better error message. For bonus points, give the contents of 
the field and say which character was illegal.

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

OK, done :-)

Gerv