Hi I was using OsmXapi today to try and get a set of bus_stops however there seem to be inconsistencies with the encoding of some of the semicolons.
for example calling wget http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node[highway=bus_stop][bbox=-1,51.51,0,51.52] I get the following xml from xapi for node 281455008: <node id='281455008' lat='51.5167833' lon='-0.1279817' user='amm' osmxapi:users='smsm1,amm' timestamp='2008-10-07T23:07:46Z'> <tag k='bus_number' v='1\s8\s25\s98\s242\sN1\sN8\sN68\sN98\sN171\sN207'/> <tag k='highway' v='bus_stop'/> <tag k='name' v='New Oxford Street'/> </node> whereas the main api gives back the correct data <osm version="0.5" generator="OpenStreetMap server"> <node id="281455008" lat="51.5167833" lon="-0.1279817" user="amm" visible="true" timestamp="2008-10-08T00:07:46+01:00"> <tag k="bus_number" v="1;8;25;98;242;N1;N8;N68;N98;N171;N207"/> <tag k="highway" v="bus_stop"/> <tag k="name" v="New Oxford Street"/> </node> </osm> However not all of the semicolons are replaced by \s for example <node id='265255763' lat='51.5105981' lon='-0.2886720' user='Harry Wood' osmxapi:users='Harry Wood' timestamp='2008-05-17T17:04:34Z'> <tag k='highway' v='bus_stop'/> <tag k='ref' v='ET'/> <tag k='routes' v='207;427;607;N7;N207'/> </node> looks correct. I am not sure, but potentially the behaviour changed mid September? Is this a known issue? thanks, Kai _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk