Steve Doerr wrote:
On 31/05/2012 20:13, Worst Fixer wrote:
If you notice some big flaw in my case change algoritm, mail me privately.
I'd only comment that a really intelligent de-capitalization algorithm
would attempt to supply the accents that are missing from the
capitalized forms.
I had to do this for a (non-OSM) Canadian dataset where the English
placenames were in mixed-case but the French (Quebecois) were in ALL
CAPS - presumably done deliberately to avoid the issue of accents.
The best approach is probably to use a dictionary generated from other
placenames. In the case of OSM we already have a great source of such data.
I could probably do this for you, or at least provide a mapping table
that you could combine with your current conversion script. But not
until next week. Let me know if you're interested.
Regards, Phil.
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