[OSM-talk] Key and value maximum length

[Shaun McDonald]

On 4 Dec 2009, at 18:07, Ben Laenen wrote:

> Quick question for which I didn't find an answer in the wiki:
> 
> * is there a maximum length of tags (keys and/or values)? (I'm sure there was 
> one, but I don't know if there's still a limit today)
> * if there is, what is it (and is in it number of bytes, or number of 
> characters)?

It is 255 unicode characters for keys and values each.

Shaun
(Who wrote nice error messages for those limits).