[OSM-talk] OSM back

[nick at hogweed.org]

On Monday 03 July 2006 22:28, Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> > http://steve.dev.openstreetmap.org/planet.osm.bz2
> >
> > Yes, a planet.osm. 20 meg compressed. This took most of the time today
> > and includes everything east of -30 Longitude (mid atlantic-ish). Still
> > can't handle TIGER yet, too big. This was done with code that NickW
> > wrote.
>
> I tried to read the new File with perl XML::Parser. But I have Problems
> reading it.
> The Line giving the errors look like:
>  <tag k="amenity" v='B&B'>
>  <tag k='name' v='Præstegårdskolen' />

Yes, sorry that's a bug in the planet dumping script. It doesn't encode 
all special characters. Will try and sort this out at some stage, in the 
meantime best run planet through a character-encoding script.

Nick