The problem is trying to find a one size fits all system.

The USA of course has counties and states! :)

It's weird that Mapquest returns the home country for the UK, but not the county, whereas google returns the home country but not the county!

There's probably some scope for rewriting the locations menu to be a little more flexible, it was a fairly quick hack several years ago :)

adam.

On 05/08/2015 04:40:29, peter.hine@familycourt.gov.au <peter.hine@familycourt.gov.au> wrote:

I saw a comment in "includes/geolocation.inc.php" about sorting the
difference between county and states. I was looking cause i'd like a
cleaner looking location menu.

so i hijacked a device on the test system and changed it's location to "10
Downing St, London SW1A 2AA, United Kingdom"

I see that we have different results depending on who we ask.
Geolocation (MAPQUEST) -> [51.503440, -0.127708] United Kingdom (Country),
England (State), Unknown (County), London (City)
Geolocation (GOOGLE) -> [51.503363, -0.127625] United Kingdom (Country),
Unknown (State), Greater London (County), London (City)

So a few questions.
1) Is google preferred (especially for people who have sites in a Country
that has Counties).
2) Are people happy to have Counties and States on the same level in the
menu.
3) Are there countries that have BOTH Counties and States or are they
mutually exclusive.
4) Do people need/want the double name entries on the last location menu
(two pictures attached to show the difference for what i mean). I have a
simple system with ony 38 locations. People may have lots more where this
has an advantage.

(Embedded image moved to file: pic36298.gif)

(Embedded image moved to file: pic21780.gif)

thanks

Peter Hine
Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers)
FCoA ITS
peter.hine@familycourt.gov.au

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