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fuzzy search ie/ei #5241

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 6 comments
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fuzzy search ie/ei #5241

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 6 comments

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Reporter: nickma
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 9.34am, Saturday, 11th October 2014]

Hi,
it would be an enhancement if nominatim would fuzzy search for "ie"<->"ei", if someone looks it up with a typo.

Now its the case that people are starting to propagate fuzzy names in the database like in the following case, where someone entered a fuzzy name as "Key:short_name":
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8029808 - IndustrIEstrae, Vienna

Is that an appropriate way to go?
Best, Nick

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.59am, Tuesday, 21st October 2014]

Fuzzy search will be addressed by the photon frontend (photon.komoot.de), the architecture of Nominatim itself is not suitable for it.

Misusing short_name for propagating fuzzy names is clearly bad practice and not what the tag is meant for. Incidentally, the misspelled version will now be shown in the search results.

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Author: nickma
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.06pm, Tuesday, 21st October 2014]

Replying to [comment:1 lonvia]:

Fuzzy search will be addressed by the photon frontend (photon.komoot.de)

So, how to get this behavioral implemented in osm.org-search then?

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.11pm, Tuesday, 21st October 2014]

The long-term goal is to get photon and it's search-as-you-type feature on the front page search box. It's not quite there yet as some essential features like minutely updates are still missing but it'll get there.

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Author: nickma
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.08pm, Tuesday, 21st October 2014]

Sorry, last two question:

Replying to [comment:3 lonvia]:

The long-term goal is to get photon and it's search-as-you-type feature on the front page search box.

Is that realistic due to a timespan of a year?
Would a quick fix be helpful if the timespan is very long?

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Author: lonvia
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.21pm, Tuesday, 21st October 2014]

I cannot give any estimates when this will happen. The few developers we have are all only working part time on the project.

Unfortunately, there is no quick-fix for this in Nominatim itself either. It is simply not designed for fuzzy search.

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Author: nickma
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.22pm, Tuesday, 21st October 2014]

Ok, thank you!

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