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I am having troubles with the encoding of the osm data in R. Here is a reproducible example using the osmar package:

osmData <- osmar::get_osm(osmar::center_bbox(23.334360, 42.693180, 100, 100))
osmData$nodes$tags[80:100, ] #the output is not UTF-8

I have also downloaded a planet file from https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/. The filename is "bulgaria-latest.osm.bz2".

After unzipping it, installing osmosis, and reading the file with osmar::get_osm(source = osmsource_osmosis(fileName)) I still have the same issue. The cyrilics letters are not readable.

I am using a 64bit Windows 10 with R version 3.3.3. My default encoding is Bulgarian, but I have also tried English encoding in R with no help.

Any ideas how can I counter this?

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  • crossposted: stackoverflow.com/questions/45215553/issues-with-osm-encoding + help.openstreetmap.org/questions/57219/…
    – scai
    Jul 21, 2017 at 9:26
  • For OSM data, you need utf-8 encoding.
    – AndreJ
    Jul 21, 2017 at 9:52
  • Cyrillic letters look perfectly good to me. Encoding(.) reports them as UTF-8.
    – Spacedman
    Jul 21, 2017 at 10:41
  • @Spacedman Did you use osmar package? What is your locale? On mine, in order to see Encoding I have to write Encoding(as.character(osmData$nodes$tags[80:100, "v"])) and the results is "unknown"
    – deann
    Jul 21, 2017 at 11:04
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    Ok, I tried this in Linux and it works. Apparently, it is connected to Windows locale. Have not found how to fix this in Windows yet.
    – deann
    Jul 21, 2017 at 12:06

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Ok, Answering my own question:

I ran the above code in linux and understood that the issue was with the windows locale. The workaround I found was to use iconv with from and to parameters set to "UTF-8".

iconv(osmData$nodes$tags[80:100,3][11], from="UTF-8", to="UTF-8")

This works and could be applied to all columns.

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