[OSM-dev] Automatic Spell check service

[Stefan de Konink]

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