On 12/02/16 10:51, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > That said, it's on my To Do list to look at doing a fuzzy name > comparison -- probably by deleting common words / phrases (School, > Academy, CofE, Voluntary Controlled, and, &, etc) from both strings > and then seeing if what's left is equal. This would probably be used > to flag up possible errors in matched pairs (either in the OSM name or > the matching), rather than as a way to get better matching in the > first place. The latter can always be solved by adding the ref:* > values to OSM.
I adopted the standard of official_name=xxx where the edubase listing differs from the signage or other local 'format'. A few schools have been 're-branded' as they became academies, but either the local site has yet to updated, or the school IS using a different name to that registered. A quite common one is the CofE and how it's printed on site or on other documents. This is a bit of a mess across the board :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
