[OSM-talk] Niggle in latest planet.osm

[Lester Caine]

I've got a set of PHP code which is running through planet.osm and is 
almost ready for me to hook in the database populate, but I'm getting a

XML error: Invalid character at line 70770908

from xml_parse which at first I thought was the final 00 character for 
the file, but seems to be something else. Since it takes an hour to get 
to that point, and the file is taking too long to try and 'look' 
through, anybody got any idea what the problem is?
I think I can ignore it as it IS at the end if the scan and I think 
everything else has been read already - all 90000+ 32768 blocks :)

Now I have to work out how to convert all the time stamps to UTC 
normalised values :( Any reason why we have a timezone offset recorded 
in the data. A simple UTC value would save 5 characters per entry - one 
hell of a lot of space :)

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