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WazeDev / WME-Place-Harmonizer

Harmonize, format, and lock Waze places
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Add a regex search column to PNH for complex name matching #94

Open mapomatic opened 7 years ago

mapomatic commented 7 years ago

Regular expressions allow much more advanced pattern matching, and can also be used to exclude similar names when naming collisions would normally occur.

StormeHawke commented 7 years ago

yes

I actually thought this was already a thing. Would be awesome to be able to recognize common misspellings (though some kind of confirmation if the regex was used might be good in case of mis-matches).

If you need any help with regexes I became a defacto expert in their use in one of my previous jobs so feel free to ask me if you have trouble with one

mapomatic commented 7 years ago

Thanks @StormeHawke! I've got a little bit of regex experience but certainly wouldn't consider myself an expert. Will most likely be in contact with you soon ;)

StormeHawke commented 7 years ago

yeah, just give me a place name and what variations you want to recognize and I can build a regex.

Also this is a useful tool for testing them http://myregexp.com/index.html

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