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Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your... by dumbo-octopus on Saturday September 14, 2024 @06:11PM (#41543443)
Honestly postal code is better. There are many cities with the same name in the same state. Generally postal codes are logical boundaries.
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Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your... by stickfigure on Saturday September 14, 2024 @06:54PM (#41543720)
Much harder to geolocate internationally. You really need a geocoding service that accepts flexible input text, narrows the result set, and lets the user pick one.
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