Support similar/alternative words when searching for a preset

[naoliv]

Could JOSM support some kind of "similar/alternative words" when searching for something in the presets?
For example, people here can call a highway=traffic_signals as "Semáforo", "Sinal de trânsito", "Farol", etc.

If we press F3 and try to search for it, we will be able to locate it using only the current translation (Sinal de trânsito). If somebody searches for "semáforo" they will not find anything.

JOSM:

URL:http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Repository:UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Last:Changed Date: 2017-02-21 01:04:28 +0100 (Tue, 21 Feb 2017)
Build-Date:2017-02-21 02:33:46
Revision:11590
Relative:URL: ^/trunk

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (11590 pt_BR) Linux Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)
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Java package: openjdk-8-jre:amd64-8u121-b13-3
Java ATK Wrapper package: libatk-wrapper-java:all-0.33.3-13
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Dataset consistency test: No problems found

[Klumbumbus]

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[Klumbumbus]

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[Klumbumbus]

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[stoecker]

A possibility would be to add a description entry to presets and also search these.

[richlv]

How does this work currently in some cases then?
For example, If I search for "church", it shows among the entries "Geography/Land use/Graveyard", "Offices/Religion" and "Shops/Other/Gift/Souvenir".

[Klumbumbus]

They contain the drop down box for key denomination which includes the value church_of_scotland.

[richlv]

Thanks, got it. I'll collect the suggested matches here so we don't have to look all over the tickets.

• "gallery" -> shop=art and tourism=museum - those are the suggested tags for things that are often labeled "art galleries".

[simon04]

The poor-man's solution would be to write those aliases in parentheses of the preset name, such as <item name="Traffic Signal (aka. semaphore)" ...>

This allows individual languages to add aliases to names which do not have/need an alias in English. And we wouldn't have to adapt the i18n process.

[Klumbumbus]

Replying to simon04:

write those aliases in parentheses of the preset name, such as <item name="Traffic Signal (aka. semaphore)" ...>

Nah, please not.

[Don-vip]

That would require a lot of strings to become untranslated, I would prefer a rich-man's solution :)

[simon04]

Those aliases are a bit orthogonal to the standard i18n process:

• in English aliases might not be needed
• in the foreign language aliases might not be needed

Thus, we cannot simply add <item name="..." aliases="foo,bar"> and mark aliases for i18n, can we?

[stoecker]

Actually I think that whole idea makes not much sense. It's much like the HTML keywords. Somebody thought it a great idea, but it never made much sense. If something is so important, that it should be in the preset, then add it as descriptive text. Anything else is so much personal experience that you probably will never find two people agreeing that these keywords are right.

And hidden texts are black magic where nobody will understand why it works.

[skyper]

Replying to stoecker:

If something is so important, that it should be in the preset, then add it as descriptive text. Anything else is so much personal

I tried <label text="" /> and <preset_link text="" /> and both are not added to preset search. How can I add one or two words without changing the item name? See my comment 24 on #21907 and above.

[Hufkratzer]

In iD meanwhile they have two different possibilities: search terms and aliases (=synonyms), ​example