[Bug 646825] Re: typing "Cambridge" on timezone page shows two indistinguishable towns

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  typing "Cambridge" on timezone page shows two indistinguishable towns

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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