[story] category weighting
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Description
revisit category weighting and try to come up with a solution which will emphasize 'more important' records.
the classic example is "newark airport" vs "newark liberty international airport"
issue defined here: https://github.com/pelias/pelias/wiki/Taxonomy-v1#sorting
related: https://github.com/pelias/api/issues/142
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked Taxonomy-v1 sorting section and the related pelias/api issue 142 to understand the existing category-weighting expectations. Then locate the API's ranking or sorting entry point; done should mean an agreed and tested way to rank records such as Newark Liberty International Airport above Newark Airport when appropriate.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100