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[Feature request] Need finer grain locality support.
Grouping results by city is not accurate enough. For example, the city "Manchester" exists in England, and there are many cities "Manchester" (36) in the United States.
Filtering by states/provinces/territories would be great.
+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 ;)
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.
Related: The #1 PHP developer in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, @mikelbring, is actually in Nebraska (per his GitHub profile).
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 ?
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?
Can this project deal with the condition which location string is City, Country (Regexp [^,],[^,])?
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.