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misspellings ruin search #3273

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments
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misspellings ruin search #3273

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments

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Reporter: Kerridge
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 8.05am, Thursday, 7th October 2010]

little misspellings ruin search -> engine should look for similar names and ask "did you mean...?" (like in Wikipedia)

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.05am, Friday, 8th February 2013]

see also #4771

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Author: yvecai
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.17am, Sunday, 24th November 2013]

Not that I'm able to get involved in Nominatim, but maybe postgres extension pg_trgm could help in solving this issue.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/pgtrgm.html

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