[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43179: News and events meta box not accurate on location

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#43179: News and events meta box not accurate on location
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 Reporter:  danieltj        |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  4.9.2
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  administration
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Changes (by dd32):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 The issue is that we're doing geolocation based on cities, not counties or
 states/territories.

 As such, `Essex` doesn't exist in our dataset for UK, only the US cities
 of the same name.

 Meetup events in a 40km radius (Well, boxed radius) are shown based off
 the result, so in the case of Essex, searching for say Chelmsford results
 in events from Cambridge, Maidstone, London, etc.
 https://api.wordpress.org/events/1.0/?location=Chelmsford

 As this is to do with the Events API, this would be better reported on
 meta.trac.wordpress.org in the API component - there's a number of
 existing tickets related though:
 https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=!closed&component=API (but
 none about counties).
 One of the issues with Counties is that our current "xKM from point X,Y"
 won't work with them, a town on the edge of two counties but too far from
 the center point might not get included when the user is only minutes from
 it for example.

 I'm going to close this ticket as invalid, however please feel free to
 open a meta.trac ticket or include it on one of these perhaps:
 https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3367
 https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2998
 https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2823

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