On 02/05/15 18:01, Colin Smale wrote:
A bit of a meta-discussion.... I wonder why this topic is not going the same way as the debate on talk-gb last November-December in which it was proposed to tidy up and normalise various spelling variants? There was a lot of vehement opposition to any automated "corrections" as many chains are inconsistent with their own orthography and only on-the-ground mappers would be able to tell whether or not there is an apostrophe present in the signage at this particular branch (etc. etc., you get this idea).
Possibly because the various points of view were well articulated then and many of them (chains don't rebrand instantly and consistently, fixing misspellings gives a false impression of quality - or not) have already been raised here in some form - everyone piling in with "me too!" posts doesn't help the list become more navigable.
Cheers, Andy ... and apologies for a largely content-free meta-post :) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
