13. A system according to claim 12 , wherein the computer is further configured for: replacing a diacritical character in each of the geographic feature names with a non-diacritical equivalent character, replacing a string in each of the geographic feature names with a phonetically normalized equivalent string, and removing a non-alphanumeric character in each geographic feature name, and wherein the computer is further configured for: replacing a diacritical character in the geographical name included in the query with a non-diacritical equivalent character, replacing a string in the name included in the query with a phonetically normalized equivalent string, and removing a non-alphanumeric character in the geographical name included in the query.
13. A system according to claim 12 , wherein the computer is further configured for: replacing a diacritical character in each of the geographic feature names with a non-diacritical equivalent character, replacing a string in each of the geographic feature names with a phonetically normalized equivalent string, and removing a non-alphanumeric character in each geographic feature name, and wherein the computer is further configured for: replacing a diacritical character in the geographical name included in the query with a non-diacritical equivalent character, replacing a string in the name included in the query with a phonetically normalized equivalent string, and removing a non-alphanumeric character in the geographical name included in the query. 14. A system according to claim 13 , wherein the computer is further configured for replacing a string in a geographic feature name which uses a character different from Latin alphabets with a phonetically equivalent normalized string which uses the Latin alphabets.