{"id":206,"date":"2015-08-13T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T08:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-08-13T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T08:50:27","slug":"database-of-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/database-of-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Database of Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.calj.net%2Fen%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F206&#038;t=Database%20of%20Cities&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.calj.net%2Fen%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F206&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Database%20of%20Cities\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline;width:16px;height:16px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Database%20of%20Cities&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.calj.net%2Fen%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F206&#038;via=calj_net\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline;width:16px;height:16px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-linkedin nolightbox\" data-provider=\"linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.calj.net%2Fen%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F206&#038;title=Database%20of%20Cities\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"linkedin\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline;width:16px;height:16px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/linkedin.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Database%20of%20Cities&#038;body=Hey%20check%20this%20out:%20https%3A%2F%2Fblog.calj.net%2Fen%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F206\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:16px;height:16px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"display: inline;width:16px;height:16px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/32x32\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calj_en\">@calj_en<\/a> Can u pls xplain y Jerusalem wasn&#39;t saved and why when I searched for it, I got &#39;West Jerusalem, Israel&#39; and &#39;Jerusalem, Jerusalem&#39;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; (((IsraelMatzav))) (@IsraelMatzav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraelMatzav\/status\/631740710195040256\">August 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear User,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for these two good questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Why Jerusalem was not pre-recorded in\u00a0the list 5 or 6 built-in cities in CalJ App ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have recorded my mother&#8217;s home town and my own current home town, which are by definition the two most important towns in the world of course \ud83d\ude42 plus a few others around the world to demonstrate how versatile and cool the app is on screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>The intention is not to pre-record a big list of cities: it is a\u00a0<strong>favorites<\/strong> list. Just as your bookmarks in your browser. To choose another city\u00a0\u2014 any city in the world\u00a0\u2014 you may use the Search screen, from which you can bookmark your own favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it is indeed a good idea to pre-bookmark Jerusalem, and I will, \u05d1&#8221;\u05d4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Why do I get &#8220;West Jerusalem, Israel&#8221; and &#8220;Jerusalem, Jerusalem&#8221; ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creating and maintaining a database of millions of places in the world, is a hard work and is certainly not part of what I am able or willing to do for my little CalJ app. The Search feature is done through\u00a0the (excellent)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geonames.org\">GeoNames<\/a> free service (and I thank them for it).<\/p>\n<p>Although\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geonames.org\">GeoNames<\/a>\u00a0is free of charge, it is a high quality database, and in general politically neutral (from what I could see). Yet, sometimes, we may not agree with their naming of some places, among which Jerusalem. I have already applied a filter in the app, which will remove any reference of so-called &#8220;Palestine&#8221; in relation to Israeli cities such as Hevron, Jerusalem, and a few others \u2014 as can be found sometimes in\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/geonames.org\">GeoNames<\/a>\u00a0database (often in dual entries) and any other similar service (such as Google Maps). As a result, the CalJ app stripes out the P word on the fly, when displaying the search results.<\/p>\n<p>One may consider that this is not politically correct and\/or evil or racist or <em>*put your own curse here*<\/em> but\u00a0\u2014 hey I don&#8217;t care, it&#8217;s my app, and the pro-Palestinians are free to not use it.<\/p>\n<p>I think this answers your question, but nevertheless I am writing down for myself, for\u00a0a future release, to take the filtering one step further and reunify our Israeli capitol in CalJ. Let us hope that this will constitute one more little step towards the coming of\u00a0<em>Mashia&#8217;ch bekarov.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shabbat shalom,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@calj_en Can u pls xplain y Jerusalem wasn&#39;t saved and why when I searched for it, I got &#39;West Jerusalem,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.calj.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}