[josm-dev] Checking tags

[Paul Hartmann]

On 27.03.2015 11:46, Jochen Topf wrote:
> On Fr, Mär 27, 2015 at 10:48:58 +0100, Paul Hartmann wrote:
>>  From my point of view, we can leave it up to the user to decide if a tag is
>> accepted enough or not. What I'd find useful though, is some kind of quick
>> spellchecking. This means it is enough simply extract all tags from the
>> wiki, maybe along with an exclusion list that is maintained by hand.
>
> Unfortunately there a many many tags commonly used that are not in the wiki. So
> that approach is not enough.

I would see this as an additional benefit because it creates an 
incentive to document tags and improve the wiki.

> Thats why I created the lists mentioned earlier in
> this discussion that does a bit more than just taking tags from the wiki. But it
> would do just what you want: create a simple spell-checking. I started out
> calling that list the "green" list, but I see now it is better suited as the
> "grey" list, because it is autogenerated and contains questionable tags, too,
> as I have mentioned in a posting further up in the discussion.

A normal spellchecker marks every word it doesn't find in the dictionary 
as error. We cannot do that: There are always legitimate tags we don't 
know about. All we can do is give positive feedback for tags we do know 
(i.e. mark them green).
As you say, the "good.gz" list isn't suitable for "green" markup.

Paul