Listed on the Map Features Wiki are 26 primary features that include highway, natural, building, etc. I ran a tile-reduce script looking for invalid capitalization in the 26 primary feature tags. Examples of invalid capitalization are:

• Highway instead of highway
• LANDUSE instead of landuse

I got back 3,186 features on OpenStreetMap with invalid capitalization in the primary feature tag. Ex: way/476771384

Such features are usually reported on QA tools like keepright and fixed by the community after some time, but a more constructive approach would be to automatically correct the issue and give the mapper feedback on what was fixed. This positive feedback cycle can help new mappers learn as well as reduce the burden of fixing trivial map issues on others.

Can we build a simple build a bot to do this:

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Keralapura is my mother’s hometown. I visited Keralapura, a village in Hassan district of Karnataka every year during my summer holidays when I was in school. Just like me, my friends would come to see their grandparents and we all had a great time together.

I began mapping the roads we explored eating raw mangoes with salt and chilli powder, the school grounds and paddy fields we played Test Cricket together, the bridge from where we jumped into the stream and the Kaveri river where we swam.

The top-down approach of mapping larger/longer objects like roads first before going into the details of mapping buildings worked for me. I also mapped temples, vegetation, hospitals, bus stops, theatre, schools, etc. I particularly enjoyed mapping Ashoka trees planted symmetrically in two rows near the Government school.

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