+1 on no auto correct, unless it really necessary.
G.
"Marko Mäkelä" <marko.mak...@iki.fi> wrote:
>On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:28:57PM +0200, WanMil wrote:
>>Hi Minko,
>>
>>it would be possible. But I fear that this would be the start point
>for
>>a bunch of rules which names match and which names do not match:
>>
>>Main Street
>>MainStreet
>>Main Str.
>>Main St.
>>Main
>>main street
>>Mein Street
>>Str. Main
>>Main Road
>>...
>
>Sure about the "Mein Street"? :-)
>
>This is a bit in the "garbage in, garbage out" category. What about
>very
>similar street names, such as Mäyräkuja and Myyräkuja that are very
>close to each other? Or lots of $basename{tie,kuja,polku,rinne} next to
>
>each other? Or, in Estonia, you should not mix the street name suffixes
>
>tn and mnt. I wonder if there is any misspelled "nt" that could be
>either "mnt" (first letter missing) or "tn" (transposed).
>
>I am against automatic "correction" of the data. If this is
>implemented,
>it should be issuing warnings, and map makers should either fix or
>blacklist those warnings on a case-by-case basis. (By blacklisting, I
>mean something like "grep -vf blacklist.txt mkgmap.log.0" and adding
>suitable regexps to blacklist.txt to suppress bogus warnings).
>
>Best regards,
>
> Marko
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