[OSM-talk] bot edit proposal: fix some obvious tagging mistakes

[Mateusz Konieczny]

proposal to automatically fix several tags


there are some values that are clear typos/duplicates/synonyms of other ones
    
I want to propose extension of already running bot edit, to perform cleaning of some obvious cases. 

see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/fix_many_obvious_typos#Extension_proposed_in_2025 for list of proposed changes

Cleaning them up, for clear cases, makes map data more usable, less confusing for newbies and software alike.
At quite low cost of editing objects.
Yes, bot edit WILL cause objects to be edited. Nevertheless, as result
map data quality will improve.

Please comment if any of proposed replacements are dubious and should not be replaced with an automated edit.
In such case please, let me know which values are problematic and why.

If someone wants to review but needs more than 2 weeks - please write and I can wait for longer.

Please also comment (or +1) if you checked values proposed to be edited and you agree with the edit!

This bot edit would be rerun from time to time, from
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny%20-%20bot%20account/history bot account
.

I have quite decent experience with bot edits, see 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account#Active_tasks

If anyone wants I can help them to find affected objects or present listing of
edits which added this tags or list people who added this values onto currently
tagged osm objects.

Tried to use them as detectors of bogus data, neither were really useful for this purpose.
We have many better ways to find OSM data requiring human review.

If anyone is looking for more cases where human review is needed - I would be glad to list them
(let me know if you are interested in specific area or specific type of issues - maybe only
shop-related? maybe only ones that require survey? maybe only ones fixable remotely?)

But there is no point in manual drudgery here, with values clearly
replaceable by better matches.

Also, I have a massive queue (in thousands and tens of
thousands) of automatically detectable issues which are not reported by
mainstream validators, require fixes and fix requires review or
complete manual cleanup. And where such manual cleanup adds value,
unlike entries from tags listed above.

This edit is documented at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/fix_many_obvious_typos

there are also many low-use values with one or two or three extra bogus characters, for example
tomb = tomb22 → tomb = tomb

would be also OK to migrate them without listing them
for review here and just add them to replace list later?
And other similar obvious typos appearing or found in future?

Only low use obvious mistakes would be changed without submitting them for review. 
If anyone at all will protest and I will not do this and post
for review, like list here, once sufficiently many values are found.
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