Large Areas resolving to wrong countries

[kanarinka]

Western Europe resolves to Germany (the country) and Eastern Europe resolves to Belarus.

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[rahulbot]

This fix for this is probably related to #12

[rahulbot]

This is doing kind of the right thing now (ie. v1.4.1). For instance, Western Europe resolves to the right geonames id (7729881), but the countryGeoNameId is Germany and the state is in Germany. So our logic for focus uses those German places, because it can't handle areas (only cities, states, and countries).

Perhaps a better behaviour is to have the focus logic ignore large areas?

[rahulbot]

This works in v2.1.0 - it returns mentioned for the regions of Western and Eastern Europe, but the only country of focus is Japan.