[josm-dev] Checking tags

[Jochen Topf]

Hi!

With my new "Similar keys" feature in taginfo presented here
http://blog.jochentopf.com/2015-03-05-new-taginfo-features-and-a-challenge.html
I started discussions how to fix those cases and then how to avoid the many
misspelled keys/tags in the first place. One point where we could start are, of
course, the editors.

It is good that people can invent new tags, but maybe the editors could show
a warning if an unusual key/tag is used? And as useful the autocomplete feature
of JOSM is, it is also problematic. Once you have a typo in a tag, JOSM will
happily autocomplete that misspelled tag again and again.

I am not sure myself how best to solve this. More warnings that people have
to click through are not ideal either. Maybe little "warning" icons next to
tags alerting the user that this is an unknown tag? Of course we need a list
of known tags then...

Any ideas appreciated.

Jochen
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