If you set up a phonetic search, make sure to take care of
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Phonetics
There are streets called "John-F.-Kennedy-Chaussee" (English and French
pronounciation in sorbian speaking areas of Germany...!
I invented this to enable screen readers for the blind to find
> Also it isn't the phonetic spelling that is really the problem - the
> problem is that a lot of the time mistakes are typos not
> miss-spellings i.e. Lonon which is phonetically completely different
> to London despite being obvious that someone just missed the 'd' when
> they were typing.
In th
> this is usually handled by using a specific language spelling =>
> phonemes translator.
> so that would need a setting for 'language of the destination'
> which can be found automatically if a country name can be found in the
> text
Language of the destination is indeterminate because they could
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:49 +, Brian Quinion wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Brian Quinion
> 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 t
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Brian Quinion
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
> 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 me
> I'd love to do something like this but have so far been unable to find
> a suggest / phonetic algorithm that scales to 5.4 million
> words/phrases across more than a hundered languages. The geocoder you
> mention doesn't seem to do street level - which simplifies the problem
> by at least a coup
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> In the Haiti response, someone asked about the Location of "Lilavois". That
> gets no results on most gazateers, except this one
> http://dma.jrc.it/services/gazetteer/?q=lilavois&cc=HA
> The place is actually called Lillavois (two L's). This g
In the Haiti response, someone asked about the Location of "Lilavois". That
gets no results on most gazateers, except this one
http://dma.jrc.it/services/gazetteer/?q=lilavois&cc=HA
The place is actually called Lillavois (two L's). This gazateer searches
phonetically.
== Mikel Maron ==
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