[mkgmap-dev] multi-word street search

Wed Feb 27 00:01:31 GMT 2013

I think that its worth introducing some internal variable, like
mkgmap:stop_words where you can specify your custom  wordlist instead of
hard-coding it.

In my example from the first post there is no problem with the "street"
word because it is not included in OSM street names in Poland - main
difficulty with searching is because street can have two different, yet
totally valid names:

Miroslawa Dutka - name and surname of a person

Dutka - just surname

of course in OSM we enter full name and surname, but 99% of people use just
surname for specifying an address.

Indexing every word in street name would solve this problem :).

best regards

Michal Rogala

2013/2/26 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse.de>

> On Tue, Feb 26, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>
> > So you can construct the index with as many name,offset pairs
> > as you like, with the only downside being that the index
> > could easily double in size if you just make every word
> > indexable.
>
> One idea I have here:
>
> Add all words indexable except they are "Street", "Avenue", "Road"
> or whatever else we have in the world which is part of nearly every
> street in a country. And Ignore all words which contains only 3 or
> less letters (Rd, Ave, Str, ...).
>
> I think this would be a great help if you search for a street.
>
>   Thorsten
>
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