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

[Steve Coast]

On 26 Sep 2007, at 18:54, Tom Hughes wrote:

> 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.

no - I thought I used those as the seperators precisely so people  
could use single ; and = chars

But apparently not.

have fun,

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