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JSON cities bounding boxes for chef-metroextractor
https://mapzen.com/data/metro-extracts
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about how to handle umlauts in town names #376

Closed benediktg closed 7 years ago

benediktg commented 8 years ago

Should (German) town names in the cities.json file be written with umlauts or with their appropriate replacement variant?

As an example: Would "würzburg_germany" or "wuerzburg_germany" be correct?

KathleenLD commented 8 years ago

@migurski @baldur any thoughts on this?

ghost commented 8 years ago

For people without umlauts on their keyboard it's hard to access those cities when searching on mapzen, isn't it? Also, when coding, it's easier to load files that don't contain umlauts.

louh commented 8 years ago

@KathleenLD When we were doing the OpenVenues site, we were generating an additional manifest file that would then be matched up with the S3 bucket's file list. The second manifest contained additional metadata to help display names better. This way we could keep file names simple but still have some place to store information about what a display name should look like. I didn't personally like having to merge two manifests during the site build time, but it did the job.

For searching, we should deburr the search inputs and region names and this will make it moot whether people type umlauts or not.