On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Ed Loach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy wrote: > >> And even with typos, there's been a number of discussions as to >> why >> automatically converting e.g. hgihway isn't necessarily a good >> idea - >> almost all of those that I've found there's another way >> correctly >> tagged close beside it. So fixing the typo in these cases is >> actually >> not appropriate - what's appropriate is to remove the mistagged >> way. > > I also think that it is a very questionable practice to automate > "tidying" of tags. But in the above example, it may lead to the > duplicated way being noticed more quickly, if it suddenly gets > rendered. Otherwise it relies on someone editing that area and > noticing it, or patrolling tagwatch and manually investigating. I > think obvious spelling mistakes like this do lend themselves to > correction.
They certainly lend themselves to it. That's not to say it's a good idea. The vast majority of these things could be done instead with a much less intrusive auto bug-notification-system. ie: a big list somewhere telling you of all the higways; then someone can actually go and check to see whether there is another highway there, or if things aren't connected properly, or whether someone has attached a "note=this really is a way for Higs and not a misspelled highway" tag. Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
