[mkgmap-dev] Parsing of ":" and "."

Sat Jun 6 17:34:02 BST 2009

Hi Felix,

> Thanks for the answer...
> in that case User:sletuffe and me should not have proposed this tag as 
> mtb:scale tag and pushed it through the votes.... Little did we know. If 
> there is no possibility of parsing this, then maybe we have to propose 
> to change the tag to mtb_scale=*. And find out how to retag all 
> currently given tags of this kind in osm correctly.
> 
> using mtb_scaleWay would be okay I know, but I have to read the tag in 
> first place, don't I?

It's not the XML tag that's the problem - it's the Java identifiers -
mtb:scale is fine as an XML tag. mtb:scaleTag is not a valid Java ID.

> I will try out out source="plan.at" , let's see if it works.

OK

Cheers,

Mark