Deduplicate Geonames 'City of' prefixes #1609
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FYI there is some similar logic and IIRC tests too here |
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Ah very nice. That logic is quite a bit simpler so I'll bring it into this PR. I think it's ok to deduplicate across all of those differences in name, since things like county and locality will not (generally) be deduped since they have different layers (unless it hits one of the exceptions like one being a parent of the other). |
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A common cause of deduplication errors is Geonames locality/localadmin records that start with 'City of'. Our name comparison logic is fairly conservative: it only looks at things like punctuation, diacriticals, etc. Otherwise, we have to consider names that are different meaning the underlying records represent genuinely different places. Getting too far away from this general stance could be dangerous, but we can handle specific outliers just fine. Geonames records that start with 'City of' are one of these cases. Often, there is a Geonames `locality` record with just the name, (like 'New York'), and then a Geonames `localadmin` record with the 'City of' prefix. Usually only one of those records will have a WOF concordance, so this is still helpful even combined with #1606
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Closing in favor of #1371 |
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A common cause of missed deduplication is Geonames locality/localadmin records that start with 'City of'.
Our name comparison logic is fairly conservative: it only looks at things like punctuation, diacriticals, etc. Otherwise, we have to consider names that are different meaning the underlying records represent genuinely different places.
Getting too far away from this general stance could be dangerous, but we can handle specific exceptions just fine.
Geonames records that start with 'City of' are one of these cases. Often, there is a Geonames
localityrecord with just the name, (like 'New York'), and then a Geonameslocaladminrecord with the 'City of' prefix. Usually only one of those records will have a WOF concordance, so this is still helpful even combined with #1606