Re: Location names differ in reports to those given in the docs?

[David Torres (AdWords API Team)]

Hi John,

I understand the challenges, I'll work with my team to study the possibility to expose IDs along with the names. 

Regarding the csv downloads, I'll look also into providing a stable link for the latest database of locations.

Best,

- David Torres - AdWords API Team

On Monday, June 3, 2013 7:36:52 AM UTC-4, John Lister wrote:

Hi, is it possible to get the location IDs from reports as detailed in the documentation at https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/geotargeting?

I'm trying to map the location information given in the GEO Performance report to the table given above but struggling as the report returns either values not listed in the documentation or alternative spellings of the same location (For example the report/api returns "Hawes" but the value in the table is "Hawes Civil Parish" - others are more convoluted)

The docs for the GEO Performance report list the location attributes are as integers, but the description says the name is returned as a string - and the values are returned as strings which causes a problem. Is there any way to get the actual ids or update the mapping tables to correctly list the values as returned by the reports?

On another note, is there a valid url that returns the current csv file of values rather than having to check the above website and downloaded the dated file?

Thanks

John

[Jeremy Gerk]

I would also like to see this data available through the Reporting API.

My specific issue is that once a radius is added to a location for targeting the Id that is returned by the API no longer matches anything.