[OSM-talk] OSM data, how can we contribute to keep it to a reasonable size?

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 18.01.2018 20:07, Mark Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:44:47 +0100
> Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
>> Imre,
>>
>> It is very good and surprising idea.
>>
>> I discovered on the page "Error categories" a tool
>> https://www.keepright.at/ with the help of which I found already
>> dozens obviously misspelled tags. It functions quite intuitively,
>> just select "misspelled tags" check box and move the map to an area
>> of interest.
> But make sure they're really misspelled.  I recently saw a change that
> fixed a dozen instances where the key "brand" was misspelled as "band"
> -- except that one of the "band" tags was correct, describing the fact
> that a radio antenna operated in the two-meter band.
>
Indeed, I see already that there could be from time to time 
false-positives. It makes sense to open a node in a separate browser tab 
and to check a tag info at the OSM wiki before correction.