When I enter my location as "Ashdod, Israel" it is converted to "Emunim, Israel", which is not even close. Why not just trust me on knowing where I am?
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8Are you sure Ashdod hasn't moved?– OdedCommented Aug 19, 2012 at 8:38
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2Are you sure you know where you are?– BartCommented Aug 19, 2012 at 8:42
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1Funny. It shows Emunim, but when you go back to the edit is still displays Ashdod. Strangely, the country drop down is not sorted alphabetically either (look for United Kingdoms - just after Gabon!)– OdedCommented Aug 19, 2012 at 8:50
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I don't like to be told where I live if I knew better. When I enter your two cities in google, I get a 9 km location difference thus Ashdod is the bigger one - do you mean these? goo.gl/maps/TqVYW– Shegit BrahmCommented Aug 19, 2012 at 9:06
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1Gabon has country code GA and United Kingdom has GB, so it is kind of alphabetically sorted. :-)– Bo PerssonCommented Aug 19, 2012 at 9:20
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2@Shegit: These are the places. If it was the other way around, I'd have accepted it as 'close enough', but as it is, it's like correcting 'Boston' to 'Salam'.– SteelightCommented Aug 19, 2012 at 10:08
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1@BoPersson - Kinda... but not in the drop down where a user would expect it to be.– OdedCommented Aug 19, 2012 at 17:02
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@ShegitBrahm I like my maps in english: goo.gl/maps/9B5Kp :-P– NaftaliCommented Aug 20, 2012 at 16:43
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4I’m voting to close this question because Stack Overflow has discontinued Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story on March 31, 2022.– Random PersonCommented Apr 3, 2022 at 12:03
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This is a problem with our geocode provider, you can see the issue here. I’ve put in a request on their forums for a correction.
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Interesting, it has both results but ranks Emunim as the better one. Commented Aug 23, 2012 at 23:27