> | The api change would be a good time to clean out most of the typos. > | with the node_tags, way_tags and relation_tags table (sorry i've completly > | forgotten these above), they are allready separated.
> how do you suppose to do that? > map_features and proposed_tags are not all the valid tags > that people are using on the map. i guess some statistics of tag use already exists (tagwatch) If the statistics shows highway: 54284238754 higway:12 ... one can reasonably and safely assume that "higway"s are typos and can be changed to highway - preferably manually, after reviewing other tags of said objects, eg higway=residential can be safely changed, but higway=hig (making it up as i go :) ) cannot be changed as it isn't clear if author made a mistake or is it on purpose. It is fairly easy to find such nodes with osmxapi, but very hard (next to impossible) with the main api. A limping workaround would be to make an application that finds such objects using osmxapi, and then allows their editing (by id) within the main api. A better solution would be to allow some searching in the main api, but that opens up another box of worms (namefinder issues, performance issues, apps using main api instead of osmxapi...). Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
