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feat(names): Remove variant names from index
Who's on First variant names are a useful collection of unofficial names for places, but they tend to be pretty messy. This PR explores the effect of removing them from indexing. While there might be occasionally useful names in there, it seems like the majority are exact or near duplicates of more official names, or names that are so colloquial that they are not particularly useful (do we _really_ need to support returning NYC for queries for "the big apple"?). For reference, here are some variant names for some key places, just to record the kind of data that's in there: NYC: ``` Bigapple NY City NY Cty New York City New York Cty Newyork Newyorkcity Novaiorque Nycity Thebigapple Big Apple ``` San Francisco: ``` S Francisco S. Francisco SFO Sanfran Sanfrancisco Frisco ``` China: ``` China - Peoples Republic China Peoples Rep China, People's Republic Chinese PR China PR of China People's Republic of China Peoples Republic of China ```
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