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deuxk



Joined: 23/10/2013 16:56:17
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Hello,

I am trying to finish an autocomplete using geonames ... I find yourself before a question about alternative names and abbreviations.

example:
In case the user writes'' saint'' of these ways, st, st-,. ...
Geonames, do not return the starting cities by saint, is there a way to remedy this situation?

thanks
blackmad



Joined: 05/09/2012 17:29:06
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I've just written some rules by hand: https://github.com/foursquare/twofishes/blob/master/data/custom/rewrites.txt

they're baked into twofishes already http://demo.twofishes.net/static/autocomplete.html if you want to think about using or contributing to the project. The indexes and server are downloadable at twofishes.net
 
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