Frederik Ramm schreef: > Hi, > >> A spell checker doesn't need to run on an online database. My question >> was if it was acceptable to run *such* a service, or that people have >> objections to a system that automatically fix typo's. > > My personal feeling would be let's put this off until we have a proper > "change log" mechanism with a "subscription"-like support so that > anyone, if they so desire, can say "alert me to all changes made to > stuff that I entered". If people would then see a message in their > feed saying "your way so-and-so has been changed by the automatic > spellchecker" then they at least have a chance to react. > > And of course reaction must be possible, i.e. there must be a way to > enter a tag "hgihway=secondary" without your spellchecker intervening > again, and again, and again... the spellchecker would either have to > refrain from chaning anything that it has changed in the past and that > was reverted, or there must be some kind of extra tag > "spellcheck_ignore=key,key,key" or so.
Your points are valid. But there are also more 'stupid errors' that only have 'spaces' wrong or use upper/lower case. So basically I would like to fix these 'on instance' errors asap. Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
