[OSM-dev] phonetic gazateer, would be cool feature for nominatim

[Lars Francke]

> 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 that case you might want to have a look at the RefinedSoundex[1]
which claims to be suitable for spell checking (I haven't tried it).
The other option of course being a full blown spell checking program
with stemming/dictionary/word distances etc.

Lars

[1] http://commons.apache.org/codec/apidocs/org/apache/commons/codec/language/RefinedSoundex.html