On 29 November 2012 19:06, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/29/12 12:30 PM, Brian Quinion wrote: > > If you mapped is as above it would work in nominatim since both name and >> short_name are supported. >> >> Translation of 'Street' => 'St' is supported anyway but 'First' => '1st' >> isn't because that would require a large multilingual number database to >> resolve this in the general case. >> >> fixing it in the OSM database by adding both would require mappers > everywhere to detect the issue and do the right thing. what are the odds > on this happening? > > fixing it in the search engines would be a bunch of work, but has the > potential to fix it consistently everywhere. > > I'm very happy for it to be fixed as you suggest, adding code to the geocoders is definitely preferable, I just don't have the bandwidth to get it done myself at the second. Also just wanted to make clear that any solution like this needs to handle multiple languages - I'm reluctant to get an english only solution. -- Brian
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