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Re: /place/{woeid}/parent returns parent in a different language

This one didn't turn up to be a language specific issue after all. When I look
at the list of
belongtos, there are names in both languages, as there should be, since the
western parts of
Finland are bilingual.

The problem, however, is the order in which the names come in: you get the
swedish name
first. That doesn't make any sense. If I'm looking for my nation's capital, why
would I want it
to be "Helsingfors" instead of Helsinki?





Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:51 am

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When I request a parent for a Finnish town that also has a Swedish name, the /place/{woeid}/parent returns the Swedish name as the parent. When I request for...
kari.patila
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Jun 12, 2008
10:36 am

This one didn't turn up to be a language specific issue after all. When I look at the list of belongtos, there are names in both languages, as there should be,...
kari.patila
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Jun 13, 2008
5:51 am

After some further digging in it seems that the Local Administrative Area is where the problem is located. That's where the swedish names are coming from if...
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Jun 13, 2008
9:04 am
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