Wrong location city name for my home town

[HolgerAusB]

All pictures taken around my house are shown with the wrong city name, it is the town next to mine. LON and LAT are correct and openstreetmap.org is showing the correct addr:city and addr:suburb

I don't think, that this is a bug of immich. Which service is used to detect the location name, so I can do further investigations there? I live in Germany, Europe.

[bo0tzz]

https://www.geonames.org/

[HolgerAusB]

Thank you. Just now I registered an account there, but this service is naming a correct PPL (populated place), which of the API calls is used by immich?

I tried (fake lat/lng here):
http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceNameJSON?lat=50.0001&lng=9.0001&username=USERNAME

[bo0tzz]

Immich doesn't use their API, no. The cities 500 file is included in the container image and loaded into the database.

[HolgerAusB]

hmm, so any suggestions how I could fix my problem?

[Sawtaytoes]

I'm having the same issue, have been since I started using Immich. For some reason, the geolocation for my house shows a city and state 18 minutes away that don't match the city and state I live in (in the United States).

I'm close to the border, but the location isn't showing the name of a major metropolitan area; it's just a fancy gated neighborhood.

Entering my geolocation from these photos into Google Maps and OpenStreetMap shows the correct spot (my house), so I'm not sure why it's showing the wrong information in Immich. This is the only one I've seen so far that's wrong, and it's wrong for all of them :(.

[hrabbach]

I have a similar problem - I live in a densely populated area where one large city borders on the next. The central points of two other cities are closer to my home than that of the city I live in. All my photos taken at home are geocoded as the city north of mine. Looking at the cities500.txt file, that makes complete sense, since it only contains the lon/lat of a central point of the city, so looking up lon/lat in this matches a different city because it's "closer". From a user experience point of view, this is terrible. At least there should be an option to override this (and not on a per-image basis, but globally), without having to change the location (lon/lat) data. Or even better, allow for the use of a more accurate third-party reverse geocoding service, such as Photon.

[HolgerAusB]

That is out of my skills. But as cities500.txt is a textfile, isn't it possible to just inject a new PPL (populated place) for a small town with new coordinates at my installation only?
If yes how to define a new line for the file?

[Vitani]

Yeah, I'm having the same issue too. I downloaded the full UK list (GB.zip) from https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ which I thought - with a bit of tinkering - would solve my issue, but looking at the code it loads the cities500.txt file at start-up, and even if I copied the contents of GB.txt in to cities500.txt inside the container (which I can't anyway as the file is read-only), it would be too late - and the container gets destroyed on every restart so it's just not possible as a user to add new cities.

What I think might be nice is an environment variable which, if specified, Immich goes off to download at start-up and adds the contents of that file (or the inner txt file if it's a zip) to the database. This way people could have "high-def" locations for their own country (or set up their own file to be downloaded) and have "low-def" locations for elsewhere.