[OSM-talk] Niggle in latest planet.osm

[Lester Caine]

Lester Caine wrote:
> 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 :)

OK seems like there was a phantom error that I just need to ignore.
The last planet.osm gives me
8132927 Nodes
8480365 Segments
379044 Ways

> 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 :)

Now to run it with the database posts switched on :)

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