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Fuzzy Name Matching in Postgres

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The page "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" covers some of the ways names are hard to deal with in programming. This post will ignore most of those complexities, and deal with the problem of matching up loose user input to a database of names.

Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS

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Guide to building up a tile server and map client from scratch with PostGIS and PostgreSQL.