- Great idea, thanks for sharing!
- country-city does not work well in the US because we have many duplicated city names in different states
- what harsh reputation? :)
- country-city does not work well in the US because we have many duplicated city names in different states
- what harsh reputation? :)
- Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already.
Today I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap to fetch cities data.
This request: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c...
I guess I'll have to change this for a less restrictive search. I wanted a city and country to have a nice and simple URL though. If you have any suggestion, please do share it!
- Every time I speak with people about HN, I get something along the line: "They criticize everything, and very easily".
I think that is a feature, not a bug.
I think we're probably going to get a blog post from you a couple weeks from now titled "falsehoods programmers believe about cities"!
My country (Colombia) relatively recently assigned them but no one uses them or require them, so no one knows which zip code they are living in
And Paris, Idaho and Paris, Illinois and Paris, Michigan and Paris, Indiana and …
I think about half of US states have a city called Paris.