[xando]

I think I get it. I didn't want to stretch HN formatting too much, but since this was raised before, looks like a real issue. My thoughs:

- We could extend the locations format to comma separated values. Although some people will use "London, UK" or "Philadelphia, PA" so comma doesn't look like a good idea.

- use ";" instead of ",' to separate values eg. " ... Lead Engineer | London, UK; Philadelphia, PA | ... "

Other ideas welcome.

[burfog]

Be looser. Grab every location you see, or at least until you hit a sentence without a location. That means city, state, and country.

Next, look for geographic nesting. If you see Moscow and Maine, it isn't Russia. If you see Georgia and Tbilisi, it isn't the USA. If you see Melbourne and Florida, it isn't Australia. Country codes and state codes may conflict, so try both ways. The larger area may come first or second. For example: "Austin, TX" or "We're a Texas company in Austin, Houston, and Dallas."

If you are left with a geographic region that is larger than a city, log the problem and investigate. Note that DC (also "D.C.") and Vatican City are tiny, so they are OK as is.

See what you can do about stuff like NOVA (Northern Virginia), Research Triangle, Twin Cities, Cape Cod, beltway (probably around DC), and Bay Area. Maybe they are small enough. Hawaii might go by island name.