In the last week or so there has been dumps that osm2pgsql fails to parse due to garbage characters, I even tried the -u switch for kicks, but unless I manually intervene and clean things up osm2pgsql refuses to deal with it.
Pretty sure I'm using the latest version, or near to it, was downloaded about the 1st. # osm2pgsql -a -b 110,-50,179,-10 -s 20090718-20090719.osc.gz osm2pgsql SVN version 0.66-16258 Using projection SRS 900913 (Spherical Mercator) Applying Bounding box: 110.000000,-50.000000 to 179.000000,-10.000000 Setting up table: planet_osm_point Setting up table: planet_osm_line Setting up table: planet_osm_polygon Setting up table: planet_osm_roads Mid: pgsql, scale=100, cache=800MB, maxblocks=102401*8192 Setting up table: planet_osm_nodes Setting up table: planet_osm_ways Setting up table: planet_osm_rels Reading in file: 20090718-20090719.osc.gz Processing: Node(513k) Way(49k) Relation(0k)Entity: line 1883470: parser error : invalid character in attribute value <tag k="name" v=��������������"/> ^ Entity: line 1883470: parser error : attributes construct error <tag k="name" v=��������������"/> ^ Entity: line 1883470: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag tag <tag k="name" v=��������������"/> ^ 20090718-20090719.osc.gz : failed to parse Error occurred, cleaning up _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk