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komoot / photon

an open source geocoder for openstreetmap data
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support synonyms #24

Open christophlingg opened 10 years ago

christophlingg commented 10 years ago

mount everest can be found on photon, but many users are used to type mt everest and don't get any results so far.

synonyms from the old solr implementation https://github.com/komoot/photon/tree/master/solrconfig/testing/conf

pelias created a list too https://github.com/mapzen/pelias/blob/master/lib/pelias/tasks/synonym.rake https://github.com/mapzen/pelias/blob/master/config/feature_synonyms.yml

related to #169 and #97

lonvia commented 10 years ago

Nominatim's abbreviation list: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder:Abbreviations

christophlingg commented 10 years ago

wow!