Ticket #238 (closed defect: needs testing)
Location data for transition near me search
Reported by: | ed | Owned by: | jim |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | Phase 5 |
Component: | Drupal modules & settings | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Estimated Number of Hours: | 0.0 | |
Add Hours to Ticket: | 0 | Billable?: | yes |
Total Hours: | 0.75 |
Description
Countries for whom the transition near me search is not working:
Canada
Australia
(there will be more)
We will need to add their postcode database (like Jim did for USA?)...
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by ed
Top visitors from - so make sure we've got these:
UK
USA
Australia
Canada
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Netherlands
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by jim
- Status changed from new to assigned
UK and USA has lots of postcode records in the DB already...
I have now imported Australia and Germany's records...
Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Netherlands have no such database file in the Location module... We're going to need to track these down, or build our own...
Note that Belgium, Switzerland, India and Norway have files and could be imported if needs be.
So, in approximate order of need, we have to find zipcodes.xx.mysql files for...
Canada
France
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Netherlands
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by jim
- Owner changed from jim to ed
- Priority changed from critical to major
What do you reckon? We might be able to find these zipcodes files - or we may not...
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by ed
- Owner changed from ed to jim
I'm wondering how other sites using drupal handle it.
Try:
Canada
France
Italy
See how you go...
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by ed
JK to poke on location issues list and see what else is done on this elsewhwere and proceed
comment:8 Changed 5 years ago by jim
- Add Hours to Ticket changed from 0.0 to 0.25
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- Canada: http://drupal.org/node/255995 -- list of postcodes and some patches...
messy.
- France is all over the shop
- Ditto Italy.
HOWEVER: It appears that recent patches to the Location module have enabled proper geocoding of addresses/postcodes without the need for these data files.
SO: I need to do a diff on the new Dev version of the module compared to what we have to see if the new patches will do the trick without us losing the extras I've added over the last 18 months.
More soon
comment:9 Changed 5 years ago by jim
- Add Hours to Ticket changed from 0.0 to 0.5
- Total Hours changed from 0.25 to 0.75
Diff done on my machine, Location and Gmap modules both fully up to date with TN special sauce...
Now just waiting on Git work so this can be pushed live... #364
comment:10 Changed 5 years ago by jim
- Status changed from assigned to closed
- Resolution set to needs testing
All pushed live, Location and GMap should now be better at finding people's locations...