[OSM-talk] Changing capitalization (Lima)

[Alex Barth]

Maarten -

What editor (plugin?) do you suggest for this procedure? Or would you just edit the OSM file with a text editor? If I do that I'm missing change set entries, no?

On May 31, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Maarten Deen wrote:

> On 31-5-2012 17:39, Alex Barth wrote:
>> We're currently working with Ruben (user Rub21) on fixing street name capitalization in Lima - a lot of the street names are ALL CAPS where they should be properly capitalized. We're doing this work manually right now and are well under way. It's quite time intensive though - any examples of where such a cleanup process has been automated on OSM before?
> 
> How difficult is it to download an area to an OSM file, check for name=<ALL CAPS>, change these to proper caps and upload the file?
> 
> I'd say no more than an hours work.
> 
> Regards,
> Maarten
> 
> 
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