name-suggestion-index
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Canonical features for OpenStreetMap, collected manually and via the NSI Collector planet scan.
The goal of this project is to maintain a canonical list of commonly used features for suggesting consistent spelling and tagging in OpenStreetMap.
👉 Watch the video from our talk at State of the Map US 2019 to learn more about this project!
You can browse the name-suggestion-index and check Wikidata links for accuracy at https://nsi.guide.
When mappers create features in OpenStreetMap, they are not always consistent about how they
name and tag things. For example, we may prefer McDonald's tagged as amenity=fast_food
but we see many examples of other spellings (Mc Donald's, McDonalds, McDonald’s) and
taggings (amenity=restaurant).
Building a canonical feature index allows two very useful things:
The name-suggestion-index is in use in iD when adding a new item
Currently used in:
See the project wiki for details.
We're always looking for help!
If you have any questions or want to reach out to a maintainer, ping @bhousel, @1ec5, or @tas50 on:
#poi or #general channels)name-suggestion-index is available under the 3-Clause BSD License. See the LICENSE.md file for more details.
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Canonical common brand names for OpenStreetMap
The npm package name-suggestion-index receives a total of 572 weekly downloads. As such, name-suggestion-index popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that name-suggestion-index demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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