[Osmf-talk] [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

[Lukasz Kruk]

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> this is because Londn is apparently the name in West Flemish
> Londn (name:vls)
> https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=R&osmid=65606
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Ah, indeed. I only looked at tags on the feature itself, I didn't realize
wikidata tags were being searched as well. That explains it, thank you.


> And which language is "Warszaw" supposed to be? It doesn't seem to match
> any of the name strings in OSM.
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/336074
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It's supposed to be misspelt Polish (just like "Londn" was supposed to be
misspelt English). I thought that for some reason a misspelt English name
was matched correctly, but a misspelt Polish one was not. Thanks to
Martin's explanation above I now understand that there seems to be no
spellcheck/fuzzy matching done at all.

@Simon - thank you for the suggestion, I will see how it works for my
purposes - though based on a quick assessment it's not helpful in trying to
find places whose original names are in Arabic, but transcribed into Latin
alphabet. That's a big ask though.
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