[Feature request] Need finer grain locality support. about github-awards

[NotBobTheBuilder]

+1, Noticed this for Birmingham, UK & US. This wouldn’t be a problem if we’d named American cities after something other than the Motherland, but then, naming things is hard ;)

[vdaubry]

Good point !

First idea would be to add a state column to the DB and geocode again all locations. I'll also have a look at the results from Google Map API and OpenstreetMap for the state information.

[maxehmookau]

👍 Yeah, Birmingham UK/US is a big one.

[jeremykendall]

Related: The #1 PHP developer in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, @mikelbring, is actually in Nebraska (per his GitHub profile).

[vdaubry]

I was thinking of adding a suffix to city :

"Birmingham (UK)"
"Birmingham (US)"

Both would come out in the search results and each one would have its own ranking. What do you think ?

[genehack]

There are at least two places called "Birmingham" in the US, (one in Alabama, one in Michigan).

Why not use the state info? Is it not available, or something?

[kuanyui]

Can this project deal with the condition which location string is City, Country (Regexp [^,],[^,])?

[vdaubry]

Reverse geocoding is done by Google Maps API : https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#ReverseGeocoding

Most of the times it's pretty accurate but of course it's not perfect.

Keep in mind that the location string on Github is a simple text field and there are over 1.5 millions people that filled their location on Github

The result if that each developer filled their location in a different way, we get a mix of all sort of things : Country, City, State, abbreviations, jokes, etc.