[OSM-newbies] Data corruption?

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Ingmar Heinrich
<ingmar.heinrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> nodeId;lat;lon
> 204781;-227258777;-643418311
> 204782;-227267522;-6434112  <<<
> 204783;-227234727;-643442608
> 204784;-227282826;-643394608
>
> The second node has a weird lon value. I suppose in this context -6434112
> should be padded with Zeros to the right so it becomes -643411200, but how
> do I tell my parser how many digits it should pad?

That is perfectly valid data. Why is your parser breaking on
non-padded values in the first place?