> Lucene uses Double Metaphone[1] (amongst others) and it works really > nice across multiple languages. Certainly the best I've seen so far > and the one OSMdoc is using in the next version.
I've just spent the last hour playing and this works a lot better than I expected. I've always avoided metaphone because I've been suspicious of the simplistic categorisation of a word into a single category but in practical tests it works most of the time - and fast enough to be practical. I'll have a go at implementing something in nominatim and see what I can do to implement at least a 'did you mean ...' option. -- Brian _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
