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Why Victoria used to be a hamlet

Searching a provincial capital by name returned somewhere else of the same name. The cause was a unit error in the loaders that had been sitting in the corpus since the first build, and finding it took building the national benchmark that now guards it.

  • Victoria, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Kingston, Windsor and Waterloo return the city you meant
  • A 4,032-query benchmark across all thirteen jurisdictions, stratified by province, settlement size, language and query type, runs on every geocoder change
  • A leading number in a query now means an address lookup, with an exception for the Cariboo road houses that are named for their mileage

AvailabilityAvailability was not re-checked against production for this record. The measured ranks came from a local restore of the corpus, not from a serving rebuild.