[OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM

[David Earl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dermot McNally [mailto:dermotm at gmail.com]
> Sent: 07 May 2007 22:46
> To: David Earl
> Cc: OSM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing name searches for OSM
>
>
> On 07/05/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
> > Various letters such as ü and u are also
> > considered equivalent (all the latin1 characters have been
> equivalenced, but
> > there will be many in other languages I don't know about but can easily
> > add).
>
> Good idea generally and in particular this transliteration support.
> Keep in mind that the correct equivalents for ä, ö and ü are ae, oe
> and ue. IOW, Muenchen should be a match for München. Can your
> framework support this?

Yes I can equivalence one character for several. The Danish Å character is
equivalent to Aa even in Danish (the city is mapped as Århus but its rail
station as Aarhus if you look), and ß to ss in German. But with
diacriticals, I felt it was more likely people would type straight accented
characters simply without their accents, and I suspect the possible
equivalents may differ for different languages.

I'll think about ways of doing this both ways (I already do something like
that for Road and Rd etc.)

David