Comment by sirobg

Comment by sirobg 6 days ago

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- Thank you very much!

- 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".

djbusby 6 days ago

> They criticize everything, and very easily

I think that is a feature, not a bug.

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  • dylan604 6 days ago

    It's also confusion that reporting of a bug is not criticism. It's a Show HN. You've asked for the feedback. People that get twisted when the feedback is anything other than pablum like "great job" need not be a developer. If you can't handle being told that something isn't working, then how do you ever expect to improve? Or maybe you've moved from being a dev and are now trying to be a founder?

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sebastiennight 6 days ago

Probably city-zipcode-country would disambiguate effectively both for the US (where you could have several Springfield cities in different states) and Europe (where there are probably, for instance, quite a number of `Sainte-Anne` cities on top of Guadeloupe's)

I think we're probably going to get a blog post from you a couple weeks from now titled "falsehoods programmers believe about cities"!

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  • salomonk_mur 6 days ago

    Many countries don't have zip codes or they are not widely used or known.

    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

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nkrisc 5 days ago

> Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already.

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.

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berdon 6 days ago

In the US you could just use “zipcode-us”. It’s not ideal though. Otherwise just “city-stateabbr-us” - e.g. “SiouxFalls-SD-US”

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