[Bug 646825] Re: typing "Cambridge" on timezone page shows two indistinguishable towns
Colin Watson
cjwatson at canonical.com
Wed Feb 1 10:14:08 UTC 2012
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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Title:
typing "Cambridge" on timezone page shows two indistinguishable towns
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
If you type "Cambridge" on the timezone page, you get, among other
things, "Cambridge (England, United Kingdom)" shown twice.
http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=cambridge reveals:
{"name" : "Cambridge", "admin1" : "England", "country" : "United
Kingdom", "longitude" : "0.116670", "latitude" : "52.200000" },
{"name" : "Cambridge", "admin1" : "England", "country" : "United
Kingdom", "longitude" : "-2.366670", "latitude" : "51.733330" }
These two places are:
http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_52.2_0.117.html
http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_51.733_-2.367.html
The first is the well-known one, where I live, and the second is a
rather less-known village. I'm used to there being two since rail
timetables and the like typically have "Cambridge, Cambridgeshire" and
"Cambridge, Gloucestershire" on them.
I think the best fix for this would be for the administrative
divisions within the UK to be counties, rather than England, Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland (what Wikipedia refers to as "constituent
countries", and I've never really heard a better term for them). I
don't know if the data we currently get from Geonames allows for this.
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