I'm trying to create a venue in Switzerland, which zip code is 4663. I get a 400 error saying "Invalid postal code format", although it is a valid CH zip code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_of_Switzerland
So, I've checked 4sq API docs at https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/add and it says nothing about zip code length or country specifics, it just says "The zip or postal code for the venue".
How should I proceed here? Should I zero fill the zip code up to X chars? How many chars should I zero fill?
Thanks!
from all the tests I made, they don't accept postal codes bellow 5 digits, your best bet is to get in touch with them through https://twitter.com/foursquareapi as they don't seem to really have a dedicated forum.
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I feel silly asking this.. but its doing my head..
if I use 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json' and set the input parameter to say - 'Palazzo Cast' I will get about 5 suggestions - none of which will be the one I'm looking for. if I set input to 'Palazzo Castellania' I will get zero results - even though there is a place called this (see below). I've set the region parameter to 'mt'...
If I use 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext' and set the input parameter to 'Palazzo Castellania' - I will get 'the Ministry of Health' - which is correct - however, if I put a partial string in I'll get only a single candidate which will be something different - there doesn't seem to be a way to get multiple place candidates?
I'm guessing from an API side - I have to do a multi-step process - but it would be good to get some input.
My thoughts:
I start with 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json' - if I get an empty result, I try 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext'
if I get a single result from either then I can pass the placeID to the places API to get more detailed data.
Make sense? It feels argly..
Edit
So watching how https://www.google.com.mt/ does it... while typing it uses suggest (and never gives the right answer, just like the API) and then when I hit enter it uses search and gives the correct answer... leading me to the conclusion that there is actually two databases happening!
Basically "its by design".. there is no fix as of Feb 2023.. My thoughts are to cache results and do a first search against that otherwise I'll probably use bing or here
I'm trying to print some RFID tags and retrieve their TIDs to store them in my system and know which tags have been printed. Right now I'm reading the TID and sending it back to my computer (connected via USB with the my ZT421 printer) with the following code:
^RFR,H,0,12,2^FN0^FS^FH_^HV0,24,,_0D_0A,L^FS
^RFW,H,2,12,1^FD17171999ABABABAAAAAAAAAB^FS
This is repeated for each tag that I'm printing. However, when printing 10 tags, I only get 9 TIDs. If after that I try to print 7 tags, I still get 9 TIDs. To be honest I'm a bit lost now, because even trying to use the code examples from the ZPL manual (I've tried the ^RI instruction also) it doesn't seem to work.
The communication with the printer is beeing done through Zebra Setup Utilities' direct communication tool.
I tried to retrieve each printed tag TID with:
^RFR,H,0,12,2^FN0^FS^FH_^HV0,24,,_0D_0A,L^FS
^RFW,H,2,12,1^FD17171999ABABABAAAAAAAAAB^FS
but I always get 9 TIDs.
I also tried getting the TID with the ZPL manual example for the ^RI command:
^XA
^FO20,120^A0N,60^FN0^FS
^RI0,,5^FS
^HV0,,Tag ID:^FS
^XZ
And I got absolutely nothing returned to the computer, just a mssage saying "Tag ID:" and no value shown.
I would really appreciate some help with this...
Thanks in advance!
I've fixed the issue, but I'm going to leave the solution here just in case someone else is facing the same problem.
I thought that maybe it wasn't a code issue, but something related to the computer-printer communication. It turned out to be the case. The Zebra Setup Utilities program has a button that says "options". If you click it, a new screen will open and there you can configure the seconds that the program will wait for the printer response (in this case through USB). By default it's set to 5, i changed this value to 100, which is the maximum. This meant that instead of just printing and retrieving the TIDs of 6-9 tags, now I can do it for about 100.
This is not amazing because in my case it implied creating 25 files for the 2500 tags I had to print and store the TIDs, however it's far better than before.
I'm looking for a way to shorten a sentence (a text of few lines) to produce a "readable" (not too long) file name.
The application scenario is a chatbot where user can submit a media, say a video, with some paired description text (a caption). The application would assign to the video a readable file name, to retrieve afterward the video by his file name.
Imagine a video paired with a more or less long text description of the scene, like by example:
const videoDescription = 'beautiful yellow flowers on foreground, with a background with countryside meadows and many cows'
How could I shorten the description above with a "suitable" short file name?
Ok, I could just give the sentence as a name, maybe something a bit sanitized, like:
const videoFileName = 'beautiful_yellow_flowers_on_foreground_with_a_background_with_countryside_meadows_and_many_cows.MP4'
but in that way I could exceed the 255 limit of file name size (e.g. on Linux)
Any idea for a shortener algo?
Maybe I could build the shortened filename with word abbreviations?
Maybe I could remove from sentence articles, prepositions, etc.?
BTW, a minor issue: I'm working with Italian language, so a bit of chars sanitize is required to produce good filenames.
Last but not least, I'd looking for JavaScript/Node.js code
You can check if the length is larger than 255 and shorten if necessary. You should also check for duplicates and append -1, -2 and so on if necessary.
let filename='some_flowers_on_foreground_with_a_background_with_countryside_meadows_and_few_cows.MP4'
if(filename.length>255)
filename=filename.slice(0,255-4)+'.MP4'
I know there are a lot of questions about this issue, but I've reached a point where I can't really do anything else but to ask if somebody else has a solution for this issue...
Using the Foursquare api explorer to test out my query I can't seem to obtain an accurate or even good fit for the data I need to obtain.
It is quite simple. I need to obtain the closest venue from a set of coordinates. I don't mind not having results if nothing is found near by.
So, reading the API documentation (https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/venues) I conclude that I need a search and not an explore because I don't want sugestions of recommended venues (and the results when I tested it proved that it wasn't what I was expecting).
So, using search api I want to find places (the place, but places would do...) close to these coordinates
ll=37.424782,-122.162989
considering that I want places close by, I add
radius=51
and I don't really want many results
limit=2
from the documentation I see that radius is
Only valid for requests with intent=browse, or requests with
intent=checkin and categoryId or query
so, I use
intent=browse
which concludes my query to:
venues/search?intent=browse&ll=37.424782,-122.162989&radius=51&limit=2
Query Result:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=venues/search%3Fintent%3Dbrowse%26ll%3D37.424782,-122.162989%26radius%3D51%26limit%3D2
Here we can see that the first result is straight outside of the radius ... distance: 135
the second result however is cool ... distance: 50
What am I doing wrong to get these results? If I increase the limit all I get is more results that are also outside the radius, I could iterate through them and find the one with the smallest distance... but I have no guarantee that the closest result will be on the top X that I limit, even If I had that guarantee, it would be a tiresome solution to an apparently simple question...
Thanks for the help...
Marc
EDIT:
I managed to make have the query perform as I intended ... But I had to add all of the parent categories from:
https://developer.foursquare.com/categorytree
categoryId=
4d4b7104d754a06370d81259, Arts & Entertainment
4d4b7105d754a06372d81259, College & University
4d4b7105d754a06373d81259, Event
4d4b7105d754a06374d81259, Food
4d4b7105d754a06376d81259, Nightlife Spot
4d4b7105d754a06377d81259, Outdoors & Recreation
4d4b7105d754a06375d81259, Professional & Other Places
4e67e38e036454776db1fb3a, Residence
4d4b7105d754a06378d81259, Shop & Service
4d4b7105d754a06379d81259 Travel & Transport
making my query into:
venues/search?
intent=checkin&ll=37.424782,-122.162989&radius=60&categoryId=4d4b7104d754a06370d81259,4d4b7105d754a06372d81259,4d4b7105d754a06373d81259,4d4b7105d754a06374d81259,4d4b7105d754a06376d81259,4d4b7105d754a06377d81259,4d4b7105d754a06375d81259,4e67e38e036454776db1fb3a,4d4b7105d754a06378d81259,4d4b7105d754a06379d81259
Query Result:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=venues/search%3Fintent%3Dcheckin%26ll%3D37.424782,-122.162989%26radius%3D60%26categoryId%3D4d4b7104d754a06370d81259,4d4b7105d754a06372d81259,4d4b7105d754a06373d81259,4d4b7105d754a06374d81259,4d4b7105d754a06376d81259,4d4b7105d754a06377d81259,4d4b7105d754a06375d81259,4e67e38e036454776db1fb3a,4d4b7105d754a06378d81259,4d4b7105d754a06379d81259
It still has results outside of my radius still ... but it's an acceptable error margin ... it is weird however.
I managed to make have the query perform as I intended ... But I had to add all of the parent categories from:
https://developer.foursquare.com/categorytree
categoryId=
4d4b7104d754a06370d81259, Arts & Entertainment
4d4b7105d754a06372d81259, College & University
4d4b7105d754a06373d81259, Event
4d4b7105d754a06374d81259, Food
4d4b7105d754a06376d81259, Nightlife Spot
4d4b7105d754a06377d81259, Outdoors & Recreation
4d4b7105d754a06375d81259, Professional & Other Places
4e67e38e036454776db1fb3a, Residence
4d4b7105d754a06378d81259, Shop & Service
4d4b7105d754a06379d81259 Travel & Transport
making my query into: venues/search?
intent=checkin&ll=37.424782,-122.162989&radius=60&categoryId=4d4b7104d754a06370d81259,4d4b7105d754a06372d81259,4d4b7105d754a06373d81259,4d4b7105d754a06374d81259,4d4b7105d754a06376d81259,4d4b7105d754a06377d81259,4d4b7105d754a06375d81259,4e67e38e036454776db1fb3a,4d4b7105d754a06378d81259,4d4b7105d754a06379d81259
Query Result: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=venues/search%3Fintent%3Dcheckin%26ll%3D37.424782,-122.162989%26radius%3D60%26categoryId%3D4d4b7104d754a06370d81259,4d4b7105d754a06372d81259,4d4b7105d754a06373d81259,4d4b7105d754a06374d81259,4d4b7105d754a06376d81259,4d4b7105d754a06377d81259,4d4b7105d754a06375d81259,4e67e38e036454776db1fb3a,4d4b7105d754a06378d81259,4d4b7105d754a06379d81259
It still has results outside of my radius still ... but it's an acceptable error margin ... it is weird however.
Although this question is old I'm responding for others. I was working on something similar to this recently and what I learned was that in order to use radius you also need to use the 'query' parameter. What I did was to use the star character '*' and it worked for me. I have to say though that the limit of 50 is something I haven't solved yet which I'm working on at the moment.
I was just curious if anyone has had some success installing and importing the Geocoding module into Python. I believe I have successfully done this, but then the results of my queries are atypical.
For instance, whenever I enter an address with just a street name and number, it gives me a Query Error like this:
geopy.geocoders.googlev3.GQueryError: The geocode was successful but returned no results. This may occur if the geocode was passed a non-existent address or a latlng in a remote location.
However, if I include a city and/or state in the address, the query will run and return the place as only the city and state, and will basically disregard the street number and street name and will give me the lat and lng of the center of that city.
Example:
place,(lat,lng)= g.geocode("4224 Evans to Locks Road Augusta Georgia")
I just was wondering if there was perhaps a problem in my installation or something that is preventing the geocode from working. I honestly have no idea how this kind of problem occurs and am very new to Geocoding. I have moderate experience working with Python however. Any help is appreciated.
I'm not too familiar with Geopy, however if you use Geocoder on GitHub/PyPi you should be able to accomplish everything you need, lots of documentation to help you get started.
Here's how you would use it following your example:
>>> import geocoder
>>> g = geocoder.google("4224 Evans to Locks Road Augusta Georgia")
>>> g.latlng
(33.5411157, -82.11359039999999)
>>> g.json
...
How to install:
pip install geocoder