[OSM-talk] Taginfo challenge

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 22:24:20 UTC 2015


On 14/03/2015 2:57 AM, Jochen Topf wrote:
> On Fr, Mär 13, 2015 at 07:17:01 +0000, Malcolm Herring wrote:
>> I found several cases of a key being duplicated with various
>> capitalisations: instead of "this" they are mostly like "This" or "THIS".
>>
>> Could somebody make a bot to clean these?
> Please don't. Read the end of
> http://blog.jochentopf.com/2015-03-05-new-taginfo-features-and-a-challenge.html
> to see why it is a bad idea to do spelling fixes automatically.

Not a spelling fix. A case fix.
Are not 'keys' always lower case? Thus any upper case there can be 
changed into lower case without loss of data?

There are a few 'values' that contain upper case .. thus any automatic 
case change here would have to be carefully selected.
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