[Talk-GB] Incorrect spelling of "cemetery"

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Thu Mar 24 13:14:30 UTC 2016


If the sign on the gate says "Cemetary" then it might be correct to
follow this (incorrect) spelling for the name=* tag but it is still a
cemetery and that is what should go in the amenity tag... 

//colin 

On 2016-03-24 13:24, Chris Hill wrote:

> I found 54 cemeteries with their names spelt cemetary in the GB extract from last night. I'm not going to run a bot to change any of them - what if that's what the sign on the gate actually says? 
> 
> On 24 March 2016 11:14:07 GMT+00:00, Stuart Reynolds <stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote: 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> A user of our site alerted me to an incorrect spelling of "cemetery" in one location. I corrected it, and then readily found and corrected three more. However, after a very brief further search (using "cemetery uk") I've easily found another 10. I could correct these manually, but I suspect that it is the tip of an iceberg.
>> 
>> Can I propose that someone who is more knowledgeable than me does a mechanical edit within the UK to correct "Cemetary" to "Cemetery"?
>> 
>> Regards, 
>> Stuart Reynolds
>> for traveline south east & anglia
>> 
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