Places: Support specifying base location (non-US)

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DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs

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Places: Support specifying base location (non-US) #2993

Closed dotanrs closed 7 years ago

dotanrs commented 8 years ago

What about manually setting a place for search? i.e. instead of 'bars near me' search for 'bars near (/in) Tel Aviv' like in google https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bars%20in%20jaffa

IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/maps_places Maintainer: @nilnilnil

nilnilnil commented 8 years ago

Can you give me an example DDG query you'd like to roughly replicate what Google is doing?

dotanrs commented 8 years ago

Actually I see now that it already exists, e.g. cafes near Harlem But it seems to only work for US cities, which is why I didn't see it

dotanrs commented 8 years ago

I think what's requires is an additional (replacement?) source to YELP since it simply has no entries from places outside the US.. IMO the best source by far is google maps

pjhampton commented 7 years ago

Hey @dotanrs

DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode and from now on, we are only accepting issues and PRs for essential bugs and bug fixes.

Unfortunately, with the above in mind, this isn't something we can action and will be closed.

We appreciate you taking the time to contribute and apologize for not being able to triage this issue.