Open ellenhp opened 4 months ago
Okay I ended up doing this way differently than expected. Namely I rely on OpenStreetMap to use the unabbreviated street names, then I go through and detect the language with lingua-rs (should use WOF official/spoken languages instead) and then do the substitutions based on that language. There are some issues. Anecdotally it seems to work ok for spanish and catalan street names but I haven't had much luck with french or german street names.
I think going parserless will get us most of the way to reasonable international performance, but we'll need to ditch
permute_road
and friends. I'm thinking it makes the most sense to use the following algorithm for that, for each POI:I think this is a reasonable way to do international permute_street but it means we'll need to perform numex at query time, because e.g. "third ave" will become 3rd ave" during indexing, and we need to match that behavior if we want to match the correct documents.
We'll need to modify the dictionary substitution behavior to add the empty string for each street_type substitution for languages where it's appropriate, otherwise "fremont ave" won't match "fremont ave n"
TODO: strasse suffixes and whatnot will need to be handled too. I might look into the libpostal codebase to see if there's anything we can reuse there.