When the country is set to "Italy", the autocomplete field for State/Province shows the cities of Italy, not the regions.

eg. "Bologna" is a city in the region of "Emilia-Romagna" - but the autocomplete only comes up with cities.

Also, as requested in other issues, I'd love to see an option to set city and regions to drop-down boxes (as is currently done for countries). This would greatly aid reducing the number of user input errors - which is especially important when using location as a type of categorisation.

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andrewsuth’s picture

andrewsuth commented

After some more reading, I found this discussion regarding Italian regions (NUTS level 2) and provinces (NUTS level 3): http://drupal.org/node/183580

While I agree with this to an extent, it does seem strange for a user to complete the fields like this:

City: Milan
State/Province: Milan
Country: Italy

Perhaps a better solution would be to include NUTS level 2 and NUTS level 3 into the list for Italy? For example:

City: Milan
State/Province: Milan, Lombardy
Country: Italy

Like this we can maintain the province codes ("MI" for "Milan, Lombardy") and include more information for the users. While Italians think more in NUTS level 3, foreigners think of NUTS level 2. My example above would cover both circumstances.

What does everyone else think of this?

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yesct commented

Do you have any idea what data file, or code would have to change to implement this? would this be a location.xx.inc thing but for Italy?

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pescetti commented

I find perfectly normal to write

City: Milan
State/Province: Milan
Country: Italy

and province names, not region names, are what you would use for addressing a letter. So I wouldn't change this behavior.

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andrewsuth commented

@YesCT: Alterations would need to be made in the files associated to the regions of the country. For example, to change Italy it would be necessary to alter the supported/location.it file.

From:'BO' => "Bologna",
To: 'BO' => "Bologna, Emilia-Romagna",

@pescetti: You live in Italy and have proven my point exactly. As I said before: While Italians think more in NUTS level 3, foreigners think of NUTS level 2. My example above would cover both circumstances.

I think that most people in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand would be confused by Italy -> Bologna -> Bologna (city)
We tend to think: Italy -> Emilia-Romagna -> Bologna (city)

Proposed solution: Perhaps there could be 2 files for countries like Italy in these circumstances: one in supported/location.it and another in supported_alt/location.it? Then the use can choose which to use, and copy over the "alt" version to the directory if he chooses.

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vthirteen commented

subscribing

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juicytoo commented

location currently autocompletes

for "state/province",

it would be great if it did the same for "city"

and then populates the postcode field based on the zipcodes table via dropdown selection.

I'll like to contribute $20 towards this feature.

vthirteen’s picture

vthirteen commented

i'm Italian and i would not use province when addressing a letter but i would definitely need Regions (NUTS 2) as an additional variable to store, index and view my nodes.

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yesct commented
Issue tags: +location bounties

tagging

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yesct commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Is there still interest in this?

Please confirm the problem in the new official release. Also, if the problem is still there, please set the status back to active. And, if it is still there, if more people pool their money, the bounty might draw more interest if the amount increase. Thanks.

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kurageart commented
Version: 6.x-3.1-rc1 » 7.x-3.x-dev

I'm italian, and I think too that Region is very important here...
Any update about it, or suggestion on how to implement it manually?
Thanks

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windsurfitaly commented

so...there is a module that make this for me? i don't know hoe to put my hands in code pages! ...sorry :(

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rooby commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

This should go in the location.it.inc file in the supported directory.

If someone who knows about Italy's state/province system could do a patch to fix any problems it would be appreciated.

As for autocomplete cities, that is a completely separate thing and probably already has it's own issue.

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openmode commented
Title: State/Province for Italy autocompletes cities » Dropdown list for Italian Regions field in module location
Version: 7.x-3.x-dev » 7.x-3.0-rc1
Category: bug » feature

I suggest these modules:

Location Region: /project/location_region

Location Views Filters Ajax: /project/location_views_filters_ajax

Even if I have some problems with JQuery 1.7 and Exposed Filters in Views.
When I try to add the provinces (location module) exposed filter in the top of a view , I view this message:

error HTTP in AJAX.
Code HTTP 500

Path: /admin/structure/views/ajax/config-item-extra/......view_name......../page/filter/province
StatusText: Service unavailable (with message)
ResponseText:

My configuration:
Views 7.x-3.20
Location 7.x-3.7
Location Views Filters Ajax 7.x-1.0
Clean URL Enabled
JQuery 1.7 (same error with 1.10)

https://www.drupal.org/project/views/issues/1376686
https://www.drupal.org/node/1183418
https://www.drupal.org/project/location_views/issues/118099
https://www.drupal.org/project/location/issues/330066
https://www.drupal.org/project/location/issues/2127933

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damienmckenna
Location TN, USA
commented
Version: 7.x-3.0-rc1 » 7.x-3.x-dev
Category: Feature request » Bug report
Issue summary: View changes

Putting this back to a "bug report" because it refers to incorrect data coming from the popup.