[mkgmap-dev] leading and trailing spaces

Thu Jan 29 06:17:59 GMT 2015

Hi Mike,

I can't find it now, but I seem to remember a comment that
trim() should be used with great care as it removes the highway shield
codes.

Gerd

Mike Baggaley wrote
> Good evening all,
> 
> I've noticed that there are a number of unwanted leading and trailing
> spaces
> in OSM data. You can get a list of the ones on the name field using the
> following:
> 
> name~'.* ' {echotags "name ends with a space"}
> name~' .*' {echotags "name starts with a space"}
> 
> I can't see any facility in mkgmap to remove these, and was wondering
> whether the best way would be simply to code them out by replacing the
> following line in parseDense, parseNodes, ParseWays and parseRelations:
> 
> String val = getStringById(...);
> 
> With
> 
> String val = getStringById(...).trim();
> 
> I can't think of any reason why a value would need to start or end with a
> space, so it seems reasonable to just remove them. Are there any other
> suggestions, or reasons why this should not be done?
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
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