[OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim
Brian Quinion
openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk
Fri Jan 15 02:09:39 GMT 2010
> 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
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