[Tracking issue] Location

[A-Nicoladie]

Hello and thank you very much for this wonderful program which is getting better every day !

I have a little problem when I want to add a place location... but it seems that I am not the only one.

• Create locations / import locations from OpenStreetMap #2879
• Locations: cannot tag San Francisco #2840
• browse "places" page with search #2763
• Location setting could be clearer. #2466
• Search for a location gives no results #2228
• can not select Riga as location #4231
• Cannot choose Barbados as a location #4306

I couldn't find a place (I read that places are not in the database), then I tried to find the village near this place (I read again that villages with less than 5000 citizens are not in the database), and finally I tried to find the most important city near this place (unfortunately, it returns a lot of cities with the same name, but without possibility to differentiate them)

Example :
Place: Abîme de Bramabiau not found
Village: Saint-Sauveur-Camprieu not found
City: Saint-Sauveur return 7 cities

Is it planned to add any location, maybe based on OSM, in the future? (country / region / department / city / GPS coordinates)

Best regards.

[arthuragone]

Same problem. At least if no location found in database, be able to write it manually

[twatzl]

Can someone answer what the data is based on? Obviously it is not OpenStreetMap, because many places are missing. Especially in rural Austria and Switzerland it seem kind of random which villages are included and which ones not.
Also it would be great to have POI included like train stations, mountain peaks or nature reserves.

[SathyaBhat]

@twatzl the location data is based on a json file - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/storage/app/cities.json

[alexgranford]

Hardcoding the whole location database in a file is obviously not a good design idea, but could be understood as a quick workaround back at the time, just to prototype something for future.

But future is now upon us, this is urgently needed for all travellers, hikers, explorers, sailors out there.

At least please allow entry of GPS, lat/lon coordinates.

This is one of the fundamental issues for prioritisation!

[alexgranford]

Can’t believe this just drags on for a year now without recognition and prioritisation.

[alexgranford]

OpenStreetMaps has this service which could help (https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/search.html)- please can this be added to the roadmap!!!

[brianpierce]

Can't choose my USA state, Maine.

[cisene]

Could not choose temple in Thailand or village in Sweden.

OpenStreetMap and/or Foursquare are excellent location/venue sources, please work out some collaboration with either/both of them. I'm Foursquare SU3 (SuperUser 3rd level) and able to adjust locations.