GB -vs -UK

[clancger]

I just noticed that the only search term that will show all United Kingdom entries is "GB".
Could you please implement that "UK", "United Kingdom", "Great Britain" are treated as synonyms for "GB"?

[phax]

This is heavyweight... synonyms - already :)
Okay - I see whether I can do country code synonyms.
Question 1: only if "UK" is searched standalone or also when it is searched like in "UK hospital"?
Question 2: What language to synonym it to? Just in English? Or to all languages the country is assigned to?

[clancger]

1. I think only "UK" standlone, I'm not sure if combined search terms would be
2. In time localisation may be necessary, but for the time being just English

I could also imagine that eg someone in elsewhere in Europe could be searching for an address in UK with the search term as England, even if the actual location was in eg Wales. Not trying to solve all the possible potential issues, but just trying to capture cases that will be likely to arise commonly

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