Standardize cities naming convention

[ustroetz]

US cities are missing the country name. I understand that some cities in the US have the same name, like portland_oregon and portland_maine, but I think the naming should still be consistent and we should add the country too.

My suggestion is to use name_state_country. While state can be optional. Any thoughts on that?

[hkrishna]

Yes, I think adding country to all the names is a good idea. Its always nice to have a consistent naming convention. Maybe we could use alpha3 values for countries?

And state could be optional - we only use it for cases like portland - portland_oregon_usa portland_maine_usa

[louh]

@thatdatabaseguy is generating a manifest for OpenVenues datasets that contains metadata fields, including country name. I'm not sure what's generating it, but here is the result: http://s3.amazonaws.com/openvenues-static-public/cities/manifest.json

I believe the boundaries for OpenVenues is now using the same bboxes as the Metro Extractor, so we have a common interest on this.

[souperneon]

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[ustroetz]

Wow that's great @souperneon! Very excited to check it out.