Spelling corrections when searching for a place
We have been tracking failed searches in Wolpy for some time now and we’ve realized that a high percentage of them was due to spelling errors.
For example, altough we accept and recognize places’ names in several languages, cities like Stockholm, Copenhagen or Nuremberg have a tricky spelling, difficult to remember.
Since it’s pretty frustrating trying to add a place to your map but not remembering the right spelling of it, we have implemented a “did you mean” feature that given a misspelled place offers a right alternative (like in Google’s search results).
From now on if you try to add Madrd or Moscouw to your map we’ll know what you mean! :)
Note to geeks
Unfortunately Geonames, the web service we are using for searching World places, doesn’t have a “did you mean” feature implemented, so we have use Google Maps API for it. Here is a tutorial by Mike Williams that explains how to do it.