[OSM-dev] Odd data in daily diffs (potlatch related?)

[SteveC]

On 29 Mar 2008, at 14:21, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Jon Burgess wrote:
>
>> I dumped the same data myself with the planet dump tools and it  
>> produces
>> the same invalid output. I have added a line into the planet dump  
>> code
>> to replace this with a ?.
>>
>> Now that I have found the links above I should perhaps add an even
>> stricter test to drop everything < 32 except for 9, 10 & 13.
>
> When writing ways/POIs to the db, Potlatch replaces anything <32  
> with an empty string.
>
> I can add a similar bit of code for relations, but since Potlatch  
> writes relations using Rails objects rather than raw SQL, I guess it  
> might be better in the relations model - in particular:
>
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/app/models/relation.rb#L177
>
> Any objections if I put it there? Steve?

thats where it would be supposed to go for 'code reuse'

that covers input... what about the existing broken strings? I assume  
this would be horrible to do in the database, but easier for someone  
to parse planet and update via the api.

>
>
> cheers
> Richard
>

Best

Steve