[mkgmap-dev] is tag matching case sensitive?

Mon Mar 17 18:17:46 GMT 2014

A search indicates that OSM tags are case sensitive and are expected to 
all be lowercase except for names, example given:
highway=Unclassified needs to be highway=unclassified for it to work 
properly.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.4.1

So I believe being case sensitive for OSM tag matching is the proper 
behavior.

   Bill

On 03/17/2014 10:29 AM, GerdP wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> I think the idea is : "garbage in, garbage out"
> If the OSM renderer treats highway=Primary
> in the same way as highway=primary,
> we should also do that, but I doubt that
> this is true.
>
> Gerd
>
>
> Michał Rogala wrote
>> thanks for information :). But don't you think that such matching should
>> be
>> case insensitive? If by mistake some OSM user creates highway=Primary or
>> trail with colour=Red such object won't appear in mkgmap compilation.
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Michal Rogala
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-17 15:37 GMT+01:00 GerdP &lt;
>> gpetermann_muenchen@
>> &gt;:
>>
>>> Hi Michal,
>>>
>>> the tag is evaluated with the java method String.equals(),
>>> so yes, it is case sensitive.
>>>
>>> Gerd
>>>
>>>
>>> Michał Rogala wrote
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I've always thought that matching tag values is case insensitive. But
>>>> today
>>>> I found a situation where
>>>>
>>>> colour='#00ff00'
>>>>
>>>> rule doesn't match when tag value is '#00FF00'.
>>>>
>>>> creating a rule (colour='#00ff00' | colour='#00FF00') solved my
>>> problem.
>>>> Is it a bug in mkgmap or this kind of matching should by design be case
>>>> sensitive? Maybe the hash sign causes trouble somewhere.
>>>>
>>>> best regards
>>>>
>>>> Michal Rogala
>>>>
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