Wrong locations

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Reporting a wrong location

• If you see a problem with a location, please send a request to the location fixers operators through the CUQ - category location : http://www.couchsurfing.org/contact.html?category=Locations

Before posting your location problem please be aware of two known issues for which we can currently do nothing:

• When the website indicates your current location it is tracking your IP address. Sometimes this may be different from where you are actually seated when you log in.
• If you go through the couchsearch and do not find the city you are looking for it might be because there are no Couchsurfers registered in that area. This does not indicate that the town/city is missing from our database.

Contents 1 Reporting a wrong location 2 Africa 2.1 Algeria 3 Asia 3.1 Indonesia 4 Central America 4.1 Costa Rica 4.2 Nicaragua 5 Europe 5.1 Belgium 5.2 Denmark 5.3 France 5.4 Italy 5.5 Netherlands 5.6 Ukraine 6 North America 6.1 Canada 6.2 Mexico 6.3 United States 7 South America 7.1 Argentina 8 Oceania

Africa

Algeria

• List OK, but a lot of pins not at the good location (too hard to find a reliable source).
• Tizi Ouzou -> Ain El Hamman should be renamed as Tizi Ouzou -> Ain el Hamman
• Relizane -> El H'madna should be renamed as Relizane -> El H'Madna

Asia

Indonesia

The Indonesian "Papua" (formerly "Irian Jaya") is messed up. There are cities listed that don't exist in Papua.

Central America

Costa Rica

• "undetermined" state to delete.

Nicaragua

• small village called Quebrada Honda in the Chinandega region.

Europe

Belgium

• Bilingual names in "Brussels" region. Political issues.
• "Undetermined" region to delete. Deleted meeting still related to it.

Denmark

From Wikipedia

The current State/province choice is a mix of large citys and wrongly spelled danish names

• Vejle, municipality and part of Region Syddanmark (Region South Denmark)
  • Vejle is currently being merged, but it is very difficult as some cities are part of Central Jutland and some are part of South Jutland.
• Viborg, municipality, now part of Region Midtjylland (Region Central Jutland)
  • Viborg is currently being merged into both Central Jutland and North Jutland

It is my firm belief, that chaning and merging these into the now official regions of denmark will help both danish members and foreigh visitors choose where they want to go.

The regions are being made, unfortunately it is quite a lot of work dividing the two remaining counties, any locals willing to participate are most welcome --Opspin 05:53, 11 August 2008 (EDT)

France

• City "Arneguy-" has to be renamed to "Arneguy" (France / Aquitaine). But the database says that the name already exists.

Renamed (DJALX)

Italy

• Billingual names on Suedtirol-Alto Adige.

- http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=4401&post=4043510

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Bolzano-Bozen#Languages

Netherlands

• island of Texel, 80 kilometers north of Amsterdam. It has 7 little villages. Two of them are in your list: Den Burg and De Koog. I'd suggest to take up in your list Texel as a village because I think someone who wants to come to Texel doesn't know the names of the villages.

Done (DJALX)

Ukraine

• State assignments
• example: "Khersonska" province in the "location" page, the the list of possible locations is actually from Ivano-Frankivsk province, and so on.
• New spelling of Kiev is Kyiv
• Irpin' is in Kyiv region (not Luhansk)

North America

Canada

• QUEBEC province : City "Notre-Dame-du-Nord-" has to be renamed to "Notre-Dame-du-Nord". But the database says that the name already exists.

Renamed (DJALX)

Mexico

• The State/Province Quintana Roo is missing the city Isla Holbox

Now is not. (DJALX)

United States

• HAWAII : Request to split by island, not possible but Hawaii need a big clean up.

South America

Argentina

• In Argentina there's a common mistake regarding Buenos Aires province and Buenos Aires city. The later being a federal district and not part of the mentioned province. I've seen a lot of people in CS with their location misplaced amd even found people that were searching for couchs in Buenos Aires city but got only offers from people in the province.

I offer myself to work on a solution for this and relocate wrongly placed users. Who should I contact?

Quentin : "Who is it ? Same problem in Zagreb, and probably others. I think we should keep it like this."

Oceania