"Location" auto-complete menu often offers duplicate suggestions

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: indicator-datetime

indicator-datetime 0.1.98-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Natty

1. From the clock menu, choose "Time & Date Settings..."
2. Click "Unlock to change these settings".
3. In the "Location" field, enter "kuala lumpur", or "wellington", or "rio de janeiro " (with a trailing space).

What happens:
* "kuala lumpur" returns two suggestions with the exact text "Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)".
* "wellington" returns two suggestions with the exact text "Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand)".
* "rio de janeiro " returns three suggestions with the exact text "Rio de Janeiro (State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)".

What should happen: No two suggestions should ever have exactly the same text, because you have no way of telling what the difference is.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This also effects ubiquity, since this is coming from the server. Seems clients should filter for such duplicates. And they are duplicates. In Rio's case, the three locations have exact information, except longitude and latitude.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 0.2.0-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (0.2.0-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    ∘ Remove unused liboobs
    ∘ Add translator comments and make strings translatable (LP: #737326)
    ∘ Remove password dialog for calendars not the keyring
    ∘ Use default matching when geonames aren't available (LP: #740870)
    ∘ UI Cleanups and naming fixes (LP: #740806, LP: #740819)
    ∘ Free JSON parser data
    ∘ Avoid duplicates in GeoNames data (LP: #740884)
    ∘ Make location completion more robust
  * debian/control: Dropping liboobs
 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:22:50 -0500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2)]

Bug fixed? But it still happens on Ubuntu 12.04.1 (daily build from July 14). Take a look in this video, please:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWcpldr-_Z0

And there isn't Sao Paulo in Amazonas !!! Take in municipalities' list of Brazil:

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Lista_de_munic%C3%ADpios_do_Brasil#S

[Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2)]

http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Sao%20Paulo returns:

[{"name" : "Sao Paulo", "admin1" : "São Paulo", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-46.636110", "latitude" : "-23.547500" }, {"name" : "Sao Paulo", "admin1" : "São Paulo", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-46.636110", "latitude" : "-23.547500" }, {"name" : "Sao Paulo", "admin1" : "São Paulo", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-46.636110", "latitude" : "-23.547500" }, {"name" : "Sao Paulo", "admin1" : "São Paulo", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-46.636110", "latitude" : "-23.547500" }, {"name" : "Sao Paulo", "admin1" : "Amazonas", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-62.900000", "latitude" : "-7.233330" }, {"name" : "Sao Vicente de Paulo", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-42.259720", "latitude" : "-22.724440" }]

The correct could be:

[{"name" : "Sao Paulo", "admin1" : "São Paulo", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-46.636110", "latitude" : "-23.547500" } , {"name" : "Sao Vicente de Paulo", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-42.259720", "latitude" : "-22.724440" }]

There isn't 4 Sao Paulo city, and neither Sao Paulo in Amazonas!!! take a look in municipalities' list of Brazil:

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Lista_de_munic%C3%ADpios_do_Brasil#S

[Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2)]

http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Rio%20de%20Janeiro returns:

[{"name" : "São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-43.207500", "latitude" : "-22.902780" },
{"name" : "São Sebastião de Rio de Janeiro", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-43.207500", "latitude" : "-22.902780" },
{"name" : "Ciutat de Rio de Janeiro", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-43.207500", "latitude" : "-22.902780" },
 {"name" : "Río de Xaneiro - Rio de Janeiro", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-43.207500", "latitude" : "-22.902780" },
{"name" : "Rio de Janeiro", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-43.207500", "latitude" : "-22.902780" }, {"name" : "Vila Rio de Janeiro", "admin1" : "São Paulo", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-46.541940", "latitude" : "-23.446760" }]

There aren't "Ciutat de Rio de Janeiro", "Rio de Xaneiro" or "São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro". See in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Lista_de_munic%C3%ADpios_do_Brasil#R

"Vila Rio de Janeiro" is not a city, it is a neighborhood of Guarulhos City (near São Paulo). Take a look at "-23.446760, -46.541940" in Google maps. This does not need to be in the database.

Rio de Janeiro could be like this:

{"name" : "Rio de Janeiro", "admin1" : "Rio de Janeiro", "country" : "Brazil", "longitude" : "-43.207500", "latitude" : "-22.902780" }

[Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2)]

There aren't any bug fix or Fix Released! Take a closer look at this problem

[Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2)]

Try search in Google maps: "-7.233330,-62.900000". There's only forest there!

There isn't Sao Paulo in Amazonas! Please fix this error, it is a SHAME to any Brazilian who installs Ubuntu to their friends...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Segio: if you look again at the bugs table you will notice that the "Geonames" part of the bug is not set as fix released, only the indicator-datetime part is and that's because there is no bug in the indicator code, the issue is the geolocalization database datas not the code

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

"@Sergio:..." (sorry for the typo in your name)

[Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2)]

Ok, now I understood!

Is there the possibility of this bug to be fixed to the Ubuntu 12.04.1? The related problem about Amazonas is pretty ridiculous for us Brazilians...

Geolocalization database datas has many problems, will this be fixed, for every localization?

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

Ubiquity has its own task: bug 837054