How to remove defacto duplicates returned by here autocomplete API

Question

I am fetching data from the here autocomplete rest endpoint. It works fine, but for example searching for berlin returns me 3 results, which are (at least in my usecase) defacto the same ... I assume berlin is found as state, city and area or something, but since this will be the same area I consider it to be duplicates ...

I tried playing around with the resultType-attribute, but using area gives the same behavior. If I use city I have to enter all letters of berlin to get the suggestion ...

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 15 '20 at 05:48

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you can try resultType=city&country=DEU&query=Ber with country filter you need not to enter all the letters of berlin to get the suggestion and all with no duplicate.

https://developer.here.com/documentation/geocoder-autocomplete/dev_guide/topics/resource-suggest.html

Hope this helps !

answered Jan 15 '20 at 05:48

Not really, because I do want the search to be worldwide. – tommueller Jan 15 '20 at 10:04
Any news on this? – tommueller Feb 23 '20 at 16:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '20 at 18:38

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I have to the new version coming out in a few weeks and it seems this issue is fixed:

Current: Current behavior for HERE autocomplete

View of upcoming version:

Preview of latest behavior for HERE autocomplete

answered Jan 15 '20 at 18:38

user12712852

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Can you add anymore information about this new version? – tommueller Jan 16 '20 at 09:13

How to remove defacto duplicates returned by here autocomplete API

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