[OSM-talk] iD name suggestion index - asking non-English-speaking mappers to review

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Sat May 16 18:38:33 UTC 2015


Boulangerie is the french word for bakery

m.

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index
>
> So this index is used in iD and it's supposed to suggest names of
> shops/amenities that are part of some chain. (like: McDonald's, Aldi,
> ...). But due to how it works (counting occurrences) there are generic
> nouns that end up here, which is bad tagging (like shop=bakery
> name=Bakery [1]) and could form a feedback loop that proliferates them
> even more.
>
> I ask non-English speakers to find anything they are sure it's a noun
> and not a proper name. name-suggestions.json specifies name
> suggestions and filter.json specifies what "non-names" should be
> filtered.
>
> Some examples I found that need confirmation:
>
> Аптека
> Apotheke
> Boulangerie
> Пекарня
> Зоомагазин
> Обувь
> Стройматериалы
> Салон красоты
>
>
> [1] For the sake of example, as "Bakery" is filtered already
>
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