City Autocompletion with Algolia

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Features

• Typo tolerance
• Flag icon for quick identification
• Click to map
• Around me search

Look and Feel

Indexing Data

Indexing cities in Algolia:

• download data set:

wget  http://download.maxmind.com/download/worldcities/worldcitiespop.txt.gz
tar -xzf worldcitiespop.txt.gz

• Run rake task

rake algolia:index data_path=/path/to/cities

Index Settings:

• Default ranking by population: user is more likely to search for a big city.
• Geolocation setting ( with _geoloc field ) to allow search
• Ranking formula:
  1. typos
  2. geo
  3. custom ( population )