[OSM-dev] Fwd: Name suggestions for iD

[Serge Wroclawski]

Forgot to his reply all.

- Serge

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From: Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Name suggestions for iD
To: Aaron Lidman <aaronlidman at gmail.com>


Aaron,

Thank you for taking this on. I'd done a lot of work on this but with
the hope that we could make it work across editors. That turned out to
be impossible.

The other part, of course, is that names are only half of the issue,
the other half is tagging. Is Dunkin Donuts a coffee shop, donut shop,
cafe, etc.

I'm wondering if adding those tags and then making a simple "Quick
add" might be the right way to handle this, or if that's too large in
scope.

- Serge

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Aaron Lidman <aaronlidman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been working on a project to improve naming features in iD by auto
> completing common names when a user is typing them in. The goal is to
> suggest the most correct canonical version of a name for a certain type of
> feature rather than having the many various version of 'McDonalds',
> 'McDonald's', 'MacDonalds' that we currently have. This is not about editing
> existing OSM data but instead aiding the user in entering what they mean in
> the most correct way that is already being used in OSM.
>
> Some previous discussion on this topic:
> https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1752
> https://github.com/systemed/iD/pull/1911
>
> The project is here: https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index
>
> We want to get some community involvement in helping to determine what are
> the most correct names by going through the list of top names currently in
> OSM (topNames.json) and the any names that might be less correct derivations
> of that name that should not be used. See the README for more details and
> examples. Eventually iD will use this repo as a source for name suggestions,
> just like the
> [editory-imagery-index](https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index) is
> used for available imagery.
>
> Any thoughts and especially contributions appreciated.
>
>
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