Display hotspot locations with international friendly data. about explorer HOT 7 CLOSED

Adding the country looks easy enough since there is a data.long_country field.

The issue of not showing the international province may be an upstream issue.

    {
      "address": "112kSXBK6iJReNq2iihxGE9gwGymPTcfYnJ9yn4ucGvYkCqYq1HW",
      "id": 4102,
      "lat": 52.536173153662375,
      "lng": 13.406815834090017,
      "location": "8c1f1d4899751ff",
      "long_city": "Berlin",
      "long_country": "Germany",
      "long_state": "Berlin",
      "long_street": "Schwedter Straße",
      "name": "Passive Golden Ape",
      "owner": "13LB84v8EpPPWbnscH8sd6RbfPjWU8YLoLWuqMKrwwqx6qxxhiT",
      "score": 0.25,
      "score_update_height": 357111,
      "short_city": "Berlin",
      "short_country": "DE",
      "short_state": "Berlin",
      "short_street": "Schwedter Str."
    },

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Looks like the duplicate is due to the fact that the province is also called Berlin. @madninja any generalized advice here? Should the API provide a "formatted city" instead?

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Ah. Sorry for my lack of world geography knowledge. lol

Thanks for looking in to that.

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This is what the geocoder returns for various localities @abhay. I'd rather not have any API include "display" strings since that is extremely app specific?

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Generally agree on not prescribing display but we already are with a locale assumption. Other option could be for us to geocode live in the app with the user's browser locale.

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Generally agree on not prescribing display but we already are with a locale assumption. Other option could be for us to geocode live in the app with the user's browser locale.

Are we? you mean we're assuming English? try some of the Eastern European cities for a change in utf8 scenery.

The alternative is for the explorer/app to have a short list of country codes which indicate what geocode fields to pull in?

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I don't have a strong preference but as we enter more locales, It'd be nice to use the browser's hints to determine how to format.

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