[mkgmap-dev] is tag matching case sensitive?

Mon Mar 17 17:29:49 GMT 2014

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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