[pokjay]

Add country reverse geocoding in case city geocoding is null. Uses country boundaries from Natural Earth

Dependencies

base-images PR: immich-app/base-images#80

Database changes:

1. Create new table naturalearth_countries with country polygons. Each country will have a row for each polygon.

Server changes:

1. Load geojson file to database
2. When city geocoding fails, fallback to geocode using country polygon

Note - this uses the current geocoding state metadata for DB import

Web UI changes:

1. Allow showing partial location info in asset panel in cases where there is no city:
   

[jrasm91]

We should change the above condition to return if it has a response. Then, de-indent all of this.

[pokjay]

I updated the code. Definitely makes it clearer!

[mschiff]

What needs to be done after an upgrade to 1.109 in order to make use of this for existing images?

[zackpollard]

What needs to be done after an upgrade to 1.109 in order to make use of this for existing images?

Re-running the extract metadata job for all images should do it 🙂

[mschiff]

What needs to be done after an upgrade to 1.109 in order to make use of this for existing images?

Re-running the extract metadata job for all images should do it 🙂

Thanks! I think this would be worth mentioning in the changelog/release notes for such kind of change, thanks for helping! Much appreciated!