osmfilter tag filter does not filter tags containing colon

if you cannot get any help here, try the discussion page of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmfilter in the OSM wiki.

Are you really sure that there are objects in your input osm file that have the attributes with the colon? Please provide an overpass-turbo permalink, so we can experiment with the data. I have no problems filtering on keys with a colon in them.

Do you mean the Katmandu area in Nepal? http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Ku

Same here, I have an osm with nodes like these.

<way id="5560559" version="2" timestamp="2010-04-02T23:40:53Z" changeset="4309152" uid="20587" user="balrog-kun">
    <nd ref="41190944"/>
    <nd ref="41190945"/>
    <tag k="name" v="North Jackson Circle"/>
    <tag k="highway" v="residential"/>
    <tag k="tiger:cfcc" v="A41"/>
    <tag k="tiger:tlid" v="128331343"/>
    <tag k="tiger:county" v="Maricopa, AZ"/>
    <tag k="tiger:source" v="tiger_import_dch_v0.6_20070809"/>
    <tag k="tiger:reviewed" v="no"/>
    <tag k="tiger:zip_left" v="85205"/>
    <tag k="tiger:name_base" v="Jackson"/>
    <tag k="tiger:name_type" v="Cir"/>
    <tag k="tiger:separated" v="no"/>
    <tag k="tiger:zip_right" v="85205"/>
    <tag k="tiger:name_direction_prefix" v="N"/>
</way>

which I want to filter out with this instruction

osmosis --read-xml arizona_highways_residentials.osm --tf accept-ways tiger:county="Maricopa, AZ" --tf reject-relations --used-node --write-xml arizona_maricopa_highways_residentials.osm

But it does not work, it works if I do highway=residential, though

@lanzalibre is that related to this question in any way? They were using osmfilter; you're using osmosis? I'd suggest asking a separate question (and say what OS you're using, as that can change what you type on the command line before osmosis even sees it).