[mkgmap-dev] address search and case significance of street name

Sun Apr 19 00:25:08 BST 2015

On Sat, Apr 18, Andrzej Popowski wrote:

> Hi Thorsten,
> 
> > But what is the original spelling?
> 
> Original is the spelling form source data.
> 
> What I mean: errors can be introduced by OSM mappers or by program
> that process data. Good program shouldn't add errors. If we can't
> verify spelling, then we should display original string from source
> data.

Exactly that was the question: what is the source data?
For a highway, you have a name and a route=street with a name.
According to the wiki, both are correct names for the same street.
But what if they differ?

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