Hi Steve, I have looked at "mixed-index" branch. I see I have repeated your idea, only in a more crude way. IMHO you could release this version without optimization for popular words. This should be already usable. I would add some ideas. For example you could split label not only on spaces but on hyphen "-" too. This probably would help with German streets and some hyphenated names. As for detecting popular words, I think this should be done for each language separately. Would be easier to analyze results and would help in case where word has different meaning in different countries - it could be deleted only in one language. A note: I think original label should be always indexed. In current version you won't find way named Calle in Germany: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/26258052 -- Best regards, Andrzej