[Developers] A reminder: /location/mailing_address schema has changed...

[Bryan Cheung]

Just wanted to add that the "gardening" was for US locations initially  
- we're working on the international locations next.

Bryan

On Apr 4, 2008, at 3:15 PM, brendan wrote:

>
> I understand that some data "gardening" has just completed.
>
> 1. U.S. cities used to include the state in their name (e.g.  
> Oakland, California),  no longer.  e.g Oakland is named "Oakland"  
> with an alias of "Oakland, California".
>
> 2. mailing addresses which referenced U.S. cities were updated: if  
> the city was defined and the "State" field was empty, the "State"  
> field got filled in with the appropriate state whenever possible.
>
> Anyone with an app that uses addresses (like a mapping mashup) would  
> be wise to to look at the "/location/mailing_address" schema and  
> some of your sample data to determine whether any code refactoring  
> is required.
>
> I've spot checked a few mailing addresses and cities and things look  
> good, but if you see anything unusual, let me know.
>
> Brendan
>
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:59 AM, brendan wrote:
>
>> I post this as a user, because I noticed archiportal had some  
>> breakage today after the new freebase release went out.  If folks  
>> on the dev/data team want to pitch in more info, please do.
>>
>> 1. the property /location/mailing_address/street_address_2 is now  
>> hidden in the UI.  The UI now allows the user to create multiple  
>> values for the "street_address" property, instead.
>>
>> so... WARNING: if you have queries that ask for "/location/ 
>> mailing_address/street_address" : null
>>
>> prepare for breakage because users are now creating multiple values  
>> of street_address through the UI: you must use [] instead of null.
>>
>> 2. something less urgent: note that mailing_address now has  
>> properties for state and country.  As an example, archiportal just  
>> asks for the citytown property and passes that and the street  
>> address up to the google api to get coordinates.   That works  
>> because cities are named with the state they are in, for U.S.  
>> cities anyhow (e.g. "Oakland, California").   I'm not sure what the  
>> data team's plan is for this but eventually, the city names will  
>> change and you will have to query out the citytown and the state  
>> (and perhaps country) in order to have a fully qualified address.
>>
>> Question for someone on the data team?  When you denude city names  
>> of the state info, would you please go through all mailing  
>> addresses to make sure that the state that the city belongs to is  
>> filled in (where it's known of course)?
>>
>> When does the data team plan on doing that?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Brendan
>>
>>
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