On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Brian Quinion <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
A bit of experimenting later I've made this live: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/?q=sheffeild however it is far from fool proof both because double metaphone isn't great with typos - only with phonetic spelling - and because the size of the database makes for a very large number of potential hits. -- Brian _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
