[OSM-talk] Several map features at the same place

[Tom Hughes]

In message <20070926184517.6gu1p6ebk0sgsw8g at webmail.systemed.net>
          Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net> wrote:

> Alex Mauer wrote:
> 
> > That's .. horrible.  Why only for nodes and segments?  How /should/ it
> > be done then?  I take it there is no way for it to work, at least for
> > nodes and segments (it works fine for ways...)
> 
> AIUI semi-colons (and equals signs) are actually escaped when inserted
> in the DB so you can theoretically use them. (They're escaped as ;;;
> and ===, oddly.)

Oh no they're not. SteveC has been known to claim that they are (and
maybe in the pre-rails code they were) but in the current code I can
assure you that no such escaping happens.

Tom

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