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Nice little thing, congrats to shipping :) I find it ironic that there are many cities with N hackers on meet .hn, yet most are not attaching any way of contacting them, nor do their profile have a way to contact them. How are you (the people without contact details) expecting us to meet you if you don't add a way of meeting you? :)
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Key reason the Simpsons live there - it could be anywhere.
Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR (also Portland, the streets names sharing a lot of character's names), it was only after he placed it in Springfield that he realized Springfield could be anywhere. He apparently makes direct references to local landmarks and establishments, and certain characters are rumored to have been based off of locals.
(The Simpsons character is named after the street.)
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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…
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"!
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
> City not found. Make sure you use the format: City, Country (Paris, France) It might be good to rework this—cities only, and provide a drop-down box for users to select. Having city, country is a bit superfluous for people who live in city-states.
You want a dropdown listing every city in the world?
Another way is auto complete for the city with just country preselected.
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It's not diacritics, it's something more broken with geo coding. Szczecin, Poland is found but handle is pl-undefined as for you... But what is more interesting, Stettin, Poland works ok... and link is surprisingly meet.hn/city/pl-Szczecin Geocoding needs some love.
Looks like even 80 years after the war, Germans haven't relinquished the city.¹ ¹Stettin is an old German name for the city of Szczecin, which was taken from Germany and given to Poland to punish Germany and Poland² after the WW2. ²Poland lost 180k km² in the east, compared to 100k km² gained in the west.
There are multiple cities in the U.S. with the name of my city, so unfortunately this doesn't work for me.
Hasselt, 47551 Bedburg-Hau, Germany
and
Hasselt, 54533 Oberkail, Germany
Happy for y'all.