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Scraper for the open-health-inspector app.
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PO Boxes #12

Closed ttavenner closed 10 years ago

ttavenner commented 10 years ago

What is the best way to handle PO Boxes and geocoding? We've got two options:

  1. geocode the city center
  2. exclude them completely from geocoding.

The first option means they would show up in a geospatial searches like in the app, but they would never be placed correctly or calculate correctly for distance. The second option means they would be excluded from any search that includes geospatial critera. They could, however, still be searched via city or locality.

bschoenfeld commented 10 years ago

I vote to exclude.

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What is the best way to handle PO Boxes and geocoding? We've got two options:

  1. geocode the city center
  2. exclude them completely from geocoding.

The first option means they would show up in a geospatial searches like in the app, but they would never be placed correctly or calculate correctly for distance. The second option means they would be excluded from any search that includes geospatial critera. They could, however, still be searched via city or locality.

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wbprice commented 10 years ago

What kind of vendors are using a PO box?

qwo commented 10 years ago

i imagine chains might use PO boxes to send all information to a corporate holding?

Also vote to exclude...

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ttavenner commented 10 years ago

It's a small number but they are all over the board. Everything from food trucks to summer camps to full service restaurants. Although looking at the data I see that some of them have put both their street address and their PO Box on the same line. Might need to do something about that. I will exclude the ones that are purely PO Box from geocoding.