Hello

We are constantly running into issues with the geolocation service and the automated detection of the coordinates – people tend to set additional information in the sysLocation which finally cause the geo api’s to fail. I would like to suggest a small format / code change here to make the geo location detection more usable and reliable. SysLocation should be set up in the form:

<Business Name / Rack Location> Street No., ZIP Code City, Country

The <Business Name / Rack Location> is still stored in observium but ignored when querying the api.

--- geolocation.inc.php.org             2017-07-18 22:09:56.994896291 +0200

+++ geolocation.inc.php  2017-07-18 22:09:40.082938507 +0200

@@ -20,9 +20,14 @@

function get_geolocation($address, $geo_db = array(), $dns_only = FALSE)

{

   global $config;

+  /* $address parsing, allow business names or additional information */

+  /* address line should be: <ACME INC> Test Street 42, 823456 Somewhere */

+  $address_orig  = $address;

+  $address = preg_replace("/^<?.*>/","",$address);

+

   $ok       = FALSE;

-  $location = array('location' => $address); // Init location array

+  $location = array('location' => $address_orig); // Init location array

   $location['location_geoapi'] = strtolower(trim($config['geocoding']['api']));

   if (!isset($config['geo_api'][$location['location_geoapi']]))

   {

--

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Best regards,

André Mamitzsch