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Dopplr needs a geography lesson!
I don't know about the rest of the world, but for Taiwan, where I live, Dopplr has a hard time recognizing any city outside of Taipei. I had an exchange with Dopplr developers about this during the beta phase, and I edited an online database as per Dopplr instructions, but numerous cities are still not listed. Considering that every other location-based service makes having a good database a priority, I'm surprised that this continues to be such a big problem with Dopplr.
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For everyone who visited this topic over the last few months, I just wanted to note that as of June 12th 2008 we've been importing the full geonames.org dataset into our database, and taking their nightly feed of updates. There's more detail in our blog post at:
http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/06/12/24-...
If there are places you want listed in Dopplr that still aren't available, please let us know.
Thanks for sticking with us while we reached this milestone.
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You're quite right, and (after the distractions of getting to our public launch in December 2007) we're now actively working again on making this better.
As you say, we wrote a bit about this issue in a post on our blog last year -- http://blog.dopplr.com/index.php/2007... -- and there was good conversation in the comments too.
We're very grateful that you went and edited Geonames to make the dataset better. Your work will be incorporated into our database soon.
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Inappropriate?You're quite right, and (after the distractions of getting to our public launch in December 2007) we're now actively working again on making this better.
As you say, we wrote a bit about this issue in a post on our blog last year -- http://blog.dopplr.com/index.php/2007... -- and there was good conversation in the comments too.
We're very grateful that you went and edited Geonames to make the dataset better. Your work will be incorporated into our database soon.
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Inappropriate?Same problem for me with Austria. Most of the places I go to are small, but still there are friends living there.
Make me able to visit them, pretty please!
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Inappropriate?For everyone who visited this topic over the last few months, I just wanted to note that as of June 12th 2008 we've been importing the full geonames.org dataset into our database, and taking their nightly feed of updates. There's more detail in our blog post at:
http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/06/12/24-...
If there are places you want listed in Dopplr that still aren't available, please let us know.
Thanks for sticking with us while we reached this milestone.
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this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?@Matt Bidulph: I have a rock climbing / mountaineering trip to Bugaboo Provincial Park (British Columbia) planned for late August. Even with the Geonames additions, the park -- an official park maintained by the BC govt -- isn't showing up on Dopplr.
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/expl...
I had trouble figuring out how to add it into the Geonames database (assuming that I can). Either way, it's annoying if I have to go in and add another destination in Geonames every time I want to add a trip (mountain ranges, for instance). When people read "Radium Hot Springs, BC" they don't get it; when they read "Bugaboo Range" or "Bugaboo Provincial Park" they would probably get it.
I realize that this is not an easy problem for Dopplr to address, but wanted to let you know that it's very important to me. (although maybe not so much to ppl who aren't amateur mountaineers/adventurers)
Chris
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Inappropriate?Also, I had the same problem when a friend of mine got married in Jamaica. It would have been nice to have used the name of the resort, not the resort town in Jamaica.
What about if we manually type in entries that aren't in the database? If you want to track the metadata for Dopplr's statistical purposes (e.g., "state of travel 2008"), then you could add a Google Earth function right on Dopplr allowing me to put a thumbtack on the map where the resort should be placed if it were to exist in your DB.
~Chris
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