Hello!

Hi everyone!

My name is Miku, and I’m currently a master’s student at Tokyo University of Science in Japan. During my free time, I enjoy watching anime and reading books. I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity to contribute to OSM community!

What I will do?

My project involves developing the search experience in Japan, which has a unique address system. Nominatim, the geographic search engine of OSM is using tags ‘addr:street’ and ‘addr:place’. However, the Japanese address system does not have the same system of these specific categories. Consequently, searching for addresses in Japan becomes challenging. My primary focus will be on addressing this issue with the Japanese block number address system by developing sanitizer and tokenizer.

Here are the milestones for my project:

1. Develop a sanitizer capable of properly setting tags for Japanese specific components such as housenumber, block_number, and neighbourhood
2. Implement a tokenizer that can generate appropriate formats based on the Japanese address structure
3. (Optional) Add functionality to the tokenizer to differentiate between Chinese characters and Japanese characters Thank you for taking the time to read my introduction! I am eager to collaborate with everyone in this community. These problems are closely related to Japanese localization, and this is my Japanese introductory page. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the comments!