[OSM-talk] spellchecking keynames

[Jonas Svensson]

I have begun writing a spellchecker for key names. The idea is 
simple: I use a set of words known to be correctly or incorrectly 
spelled (ie "highway" and "highawy").
I search a planet dump for incorrect keys, when found I download 
the node to see if the error is still in the database, if so I 
change the word and upload the corrected node. I change only words 
known to be incorrectly spelled, ie no change for unknown words. 
Then the program sleeps for 90 seks to keep the load of the server 
down. Also because I am still testing and is trying to keep an eye 
on things.

Questions on this:
1. I believe someone said that key name should always be in lower 
case. I found nothing about that in the Map Features page but have 
assumed that to be correct. Therefore I am changing any words that 
are correctly spelled but using upper case to only use lower case. 
For example I have changed "Name" to "name" and "opm:liftType" to 
"opm:lifttype".
Any problem with that?

2. Should the key names always be in english or should other 
languages be allowed? Ie should I let "Strasse" be as is or change 
it? If they should be changed I will come back and ask for proper 
translations.

So far I have changed nodes: 394499, 417365, 422905, 616743, 
616744, 616745, 616746, 616753, 616754.

/Jonas