Re: [Maposmatic-dev] Common index prefixes for French

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:13:19 +0100
Jean-Guilhem Cailton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sure, perfect guess would be difficult. But wouldn't it be helpful to 
> try some simple guesses, based e.g. on official country language(s)
> so that it be easily understandable by the user, that might be right
> in 90 % of the cases, and anyway better than the default in 99 % of
> the cases. (And I think my estimates might be overly conservative
> here :) ).

Well, if we have :

 * The coordinates of the geographic area of each country in the world ;

 * The algorithm to know whether a given bounding box is included
   inside a country area, crosses two areas ;

 * The code that implements this.

Then yes, it's something we can add :-)

Thomas
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