[Talk-us] First vs 1st

[Brian Quinion]

On 29 November 2012 19:06, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

> On 11/29/12 12:30 PM, Brian Quinion wrote:
>
>  If you mapped is as above it would work in nominatim since both name and
>> short_name are supported.
>>
>> Translation of 'Street' => 'St' is supported anyway but 'First' => '1st'
>> isn't because that would require a large multilingual number database to
>> resolve this in the general case.
>>
>>  fixing it in the OSM database by adding both would require mappers
> everywhere to detect the issue and do the right thing. what are the odds
> on this happening?
>
> fixing it in the search engines would be a bunch of work, but has the
> potential to fix it consistently everywhere.
>
>
I'm very happy for it to be fixed as you suggest, adding code to the
geocoders is definitely preferable, I just don't have the bandwidth to get
it done myself at the second.  Also just wanted to make clear that any
solution like this needs to handle multiple languages - I'm reluctant to
get an english only solution.

--
 Brian
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