Feature #8021
Requesting from Radioreference.com.com for a location outside of USA, ie the dreaded invalid county Id
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 06/27/2020 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 100% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | chirp-daily | |||
| Chirp Version: | daily | Model affected: | RadioReference |
Description
Greets.
So, been fighting with this, and it’s obvious that the problem is that Chirp sends requests to radioreference.com using a Zipcode API which fails miserably for any non Us locale.
Can’t a dropdown to use “Metro Area” instead of Zipcode (with correct request natch) be added ?
It seems to be used for most Large countries.
Website searches using “County” as a droplist work, so that should be feasible. (No Zipcode search in Canada, but USA does get them, obviously)
Related issues
Associated revisions
Added methods and UI to query/import RadioRef.com for Canada. Fixes #8021
My first foray into Python, so forgive anything that's not optimal.
user: Mark Leigh <mark.leigh@shaw.ca>
branch 'default'
changed chirp/directory.py
changed chirp/radioreference.py
changed chirp/ui/mainapp.py
History
Updated by Bernhard Hailer almost 2 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from New to Feedback
- Target version set to chirp-daily
- Model affected changed from (All models) to RadioReference
#4941 suggests that this has been resolved recently.
Did you try a recent build?
Updated by Jean Pichette almost 2 years ago
Greets.
June 22nd 2020.
I did test with Actual american zipcodes, and it works for me. Completely useless, but it works. (90210, and a reserve one that I took from the report number in case the actual county ID was used to label the pdr reports generated.)
And tested queries at radioreference. (And double checked a dozen countries while editing this)
The entirety of this problem is that radioreference allows searches by Zipcodes , County and a few other options Like Metropolitan areas etc. .
The options change by country.
Contrary to many databases they don’t seem to equate all the types of postal identifiers, so only real Zipcodes can be found by a zipcode search.
(Note The . Radioreference Website does not allow searching by postal code in canada, so may not actually have the information.)Chirp ONLY offers to search by Zipcode.
Adding a County search would fix Canada
Adding a Region search would fix many countries, but not canada :) (This seems to be the default for the small countries with a single grouping)
So I’d suggest adding a pull down between Zipcode search, county, and Region. I think that would fix most countries.
P.s. I’m willing to do the entire research and check every listing To see if those 3 options would cover every countries. Might need a fourth, but I’d be surprised.
Jp
Updated by Jean Pichette almost 2 years ago
Tested the July 11th release.
No improvement.
Just keeping this active :)
Updated by Jean Pichette almost 2 years ago
Tested the july 22nd
Also, 4941 was a different (tho similar sounding issue) where a specific Zip code in Washington was buggy..
My issue is that there are no Zip Codes outside of the Us, and as long as Chirp will not provide a query by something other than a Zip Code, we can’t use it.
(Well, not the local frequency imports)
Updated by Mark Leigh over 1 year ago
Yes, absurd that no one has tackled this... so I'm on it. Thank goodness it's open source.
Updated by Mark Leigh over 1 year ago
A B wrote:
Yes, absurd that no one has tackled this... so I'm on it. Thank goodness it's open source.
Coming along. Probably a few days away from a pull request.
Updated by Mark Leigh over 1 year ago
This is completed - for Canada!
The radio menu now has a submenu for RadioReference.com under which you can select Canada or USA. Inside the "Canada" option, you select Province and "county" (which is actually a mishmash of "Census geographic units" and Municipalities).
Currently excludes provincewide systems - but some ambitious human could probably take care of that.
I haven't pulled out a radio to test with, but import works well.
Enjoy! Pull request has been sent!
Updated by Mark Leigh over 1 year ago
Mark Leigh wrote:
This is completed - for Canada!
On my version, radio menu now has a submenu for RadioReference.com under which you can select Canada or USA. Inside the "Canada" option, you select Province and "county" (which is actually a mishmash of "Census geographic units" and Municipalities).
Currently excludes provincewide systems - but some ambitious human could probably take care of that.
I haven't pulled out a radio to test with, but import works well.
Enjoy! Pull request has been sent!
Updated by Mark Leigh over 1 year ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset e201a439edcc.