Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

I noticed if 'cem' is typed in the wiki's search box it displays Cemetary as the option. Amending that /might/ help reduce the mistakes On 24/03/2016 11:14, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Hi all, A user of our site alerted me to an incorrect spelling of “cemetery” in one location. I corrected it,

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

I fixed a few misspelled building:* keys on a long train ride after Jochen issued this challenge: https://blog.jochentopf.com/2015-03-05-new-taginfo-features-and-a-challenge.html http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/reports/similar_keys <- useful! cheers, Jo On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 12:26 PM,

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

If the sign on the gate says "Cemetary" then it might be correct to follow this (incorrect) spelling for the name=* tag but it is still a cemetery and that is what should go in the amenity tag... //colin On 2016-03-24 13:24, Chris Hill wrote: > I found 54 cemeteries with their names spelt

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

Unfortunately there are quite a few spelling mistakes in the keys. I investigated the shops keys recently and found among others: toolhire, gereral, keycutting, manacure, bppkmaker, car stufff, convienience, etc. ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

I found 54 cemeteries with their names spelt cemetary in the GB extract from last night. I'm not going to run a bot to change any of them - what if that's what the sign on the gate actually says? On 24 March 2016 11:14:07 GMT+00:00, Stuart Reynolds wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

I bet Swedish gothic metal band Cemetary are embarrassed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetary_(band) On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 at 11:50 Andy Townsend wrote: > On 24/03/2016 11:26, Andy Townsend wrote: > > > > I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries > > For completeness,

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

On 24/03/2016 11:26, Andy Townsend wrote: I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries For completeness, this list will include the notes that I added for this particular misspelling: http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/search?q=cemetary=0 (just for info in case anyone wasn't

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

Plenty of misspellings outside of the UK but within the Anglosphere, as Nominatim will show. You could be fixing them for some time. Regards, *Paul* On 24 March 2016 at 11:26, Andy Townsend wrote: > On 24/03/2016 11:14, Stuart Reynolds wrote: > >> Can I propose that someone

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

On 24/03/2016 11:14, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Can I propose that someone who is more knowledgeable than me does a mechanical edit within the UK to correct “Cemetary” to “Cemetery”? I added a bunch of notes for misspelt cemeteries a while back (mainly trying to provide an "in" for new local

[Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

Hi all, A user of our site alerted me to an incorrect spelling of “cemetery” in one location. I corrected it, and then readily found and corrected three more. However, after a very brief further search (using “cemetery uk”) I’ve easily found another 10. I could correct these manually, but I