MapSpeller supports conventional spell-checking
(dictionary-based) and additionally offers several ways of handling the
challenges
specific to spell checking
maps. Several of the processes involved are patented or patent-pending. They include:
Using
customizable danger dictionaries. Danger dictionaries are
dictionaries of correctly
spelled words that would typically not appear on maps. Those words
could be misspellings for other words. For
example, "sight" could be a misspelled "site", "pubic" would
likely be a misspelling for "public", etc.
Exclusively
spell checking the area that would print from the layout view. Users can
control what text is visible or on the layout page, and therefore what
should be spell checked and to what geographic extent.
Spell checking in batch mode. All errors are found and
reported in a
single dialog, thereby increasing user productivity.