What are you using to parse and resolve location? There doesn't seem to be a suggested format for a github profile and myself, like many other people in the US just put in a State abbreviation or City name which has DC in Van, Turkey.
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It won't recognize my city from my profile even after I added it (other developers for my city show up, though). Are the results cached? Is there any way to refresh the cache?
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Hi,
I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards, if you have any questions feel free to ask
It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK:
http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin
https://github.com/kylecronin
Same here. I'm from Italy, but reported from Madagascar :)
https://github.com/amadvance http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=amadvance
Same for me: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=Azdle
Tells me I'm in Houston, actually in Minneapolis.
Same I'm in Rhode Island not Irvine
http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=mpiannucci
Also, it looks like the cities w/ the same name in different countries are treated as one city.
I am in Santa Fe, NM but ranked with people in Santa Fe, Argentina.
What are you using to parse and resolve location? There doesn't seem to be a suggested format for a github profile and myself, like many other people in the US just put in a State abbreviation or City name which has DC in Van, Turkey.
I'm using Google Geocoding API untill i reached the rate limit (2.5k calls / day) and Openstreetmap API for the rest
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/
I wanted to use this API for a simple app of mine too but in the end didn't because of this. Used Mapquest instead, which seems good too.
It won't recognize my city from my profile even after I added it (other developers for my city show up, though). Are the results cached? Is there any way to refresh the cache?
I don't think it's updated in realtime, is it?
OK, got it. It's missing a significant amount of data because of GitHub-Archive.
https://github.com/igrigorik/githubarchive.org/issues/30