parsing of hexadecimal tag values throws an error

[durkie]

I have a custom tag that I add to OSM ways, and gol-tool seems to have trouble parsing its values because they are hex numbers:

gol query 250909.gol w[official_name=808f7fd1754] -b -122.40659,37.4548,-122.22634,37.79707 -f geojson
Destroying FeatureStore...              Querying...
Destroyed FeatureStore.
 ──────  Expected ]
    w[official_name=808f7fd1754]
                       ^

I can't find any way of quoting or escaping this value that lets it be interpreted correctly.

It seems like this extends to any tag value that starts with a number. "8hello" throws an error as well, but "hello8" doesn't, nor does "h8ello"

[clarisma]

The query parser treats hex numbers as strings. Strings starting with numbers need to be quoted (as you did).

However, the shell strips out double quotes (in particular on Windows). If you use single quotes, it will work:

gol query 250909.gol w[official_name='808f7fd1754']

If you use PowerShell, you will also need to wrap the entire query in double quotes:

gol query 250909.gol "w[official_name='808f7fd1754']"

Thanks for pointing this out, I'll annotate the GOQL documentation about these shell quirks.

[durkie]

Ah there we go -- on ubuntu it looks like these work too:
gol query 250909.gol w[official_name="'808f7fd300c'"] -b -122.40659,37.4548,-122.22634,37.79707 -f geojson

gol query 250909.gol w[official_name=\'808f7fd300c\'] -b -122.40659,37.4548,-122.22634,37.79707 -f geojson

thanks!