[OSM-talk] setting up PostGIS, importing data

[Torsten Mohr]

Hello,

> > I can't imagine that the file is corrupt.
> 
> It is corrupt, from the developer list:
> 
>  "The planet dump code used to turn all characters less than 32
> into '?' instead of creating these character sequences. I guess he
> didn't read the bit of the XML spec which says that all characters <32
> are invalid except for tab / newline / carriage return[1]. It makes no
> difference whether they exist as plain characters or character entities,
> they are still not allowed, e.g.

thanks for that explanation.

> I have a committed a change which should resolve this for future dumps
> in r20430 but someone needs to compile and update the copy on the
> server."
> 
> Next planet dump should be OK, or you can read from the dev list about how
>  to update problematic characters to something acceptable.

Great, then i'll wait for that next dump and install it.  Hopefully it won't 
take long.  But i guess it won't as obviously this one has some problems.


Best regards,
Torsten.