Bug 1958992 - suggest: Improve geonames l10n and weather-suggestions matching.

[0c0w3]

This is a substantial reworking of geonames and weather suggestions in suggest, including some breaking API changes. I didn't bother deprecating anything because AFAIK desktop is the only consumer that uses these, and we can just fix it when we vendor.

Summary of major changes:

In RS, don't store geonames' alternate names inline with the core geonames data. Instead, use separate record types. (As a reminder, "alternates" just means variants of a geoname's main name, like "NYC" and "NY" are alternates for New York City.) So now there are two record types: core geonames data and alternates. The core records contain the main geonames data: IDs, canonical name, country, admin divisions, etc., and they can be ingested by all clients regardless of their locale or country. The alternates records are scoped by language and are intended to be ingested only by clients with matching locales.

Improve geonames fetching and weather-suggestion matching so all admin levels and countries are supported. e.g., "waterloo on", "waterloo canada", "waterloo on canada", etc.

Relax the weather parsing a little to allow multiple weather keywords ("rain weather").

Keep track of all available admin codes per geoname. There are four of them. This is necessary because a lot of countries outside North America have multiple admin levels, and determining whether a given geoname is related to another one requires comparing their admin codes.

Instead of manually computing name variants and inserting them separately into the DB, use a custom Sqlite collating sequence. ("Variants" here means removing punctuation, lowercasing, removing diacritics, etc.)

Store each geoname's ascii_name as an alternate. That's useful for chars like "ö", which is represented as "oe" in the ASCII name (at least the geonames data I've seen).

Minor changes:

Store latitude and longitude and strings instead of floats. I made this change to derive Eq for Geoname, but it makes sense anyway and is how I should have done it originally.

Add Geoname::geoname_type so consumers can easily understand whether it's a city, admin region, or country.

Remove the geoname_type param from fetch_geonames. Consumers can filter out matching geonames that they don't want instead.

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[ncloudioj]

@0c0w3 - Hey Drew, just finished up some other stuff, will look into this next week. Sorry for the delay.

[ncloudioj]

Looks good, thanks! The l10n handling is very cool.

[tiftran]

lgtm 🙂

[0c0w3]

Thanks! I'll wait to merge this until I can get a desktop patch together. I think I'll also need another PR where fetch_geonames returns localized names to consumers, for Yelp suggestions.

[0c0w3]

The latest commit reverts the change from Geoname::country to country_code, same for the admin codes. I'm working on another PR that adds a function for consumers to fetch localized/alternate names, and having "code" in these property names helps disambiguate.

[0c0w3]

I'm going to start merging these geonames PRs now.