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A map to show representation for the US-RSE Association
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How accurate should the maps be? #140

Open exoticDFT opened 3 hours ago

exoticDFT commented 3 hours ago

I was just looking at the heatmap version of the map and realized we are explicitly placing people on the map at whatever location they provide. To the point of seeing an exact house they may have added during registration. This is true for the regular map as well.

Was this an intentional decision? If not, should we be extracting street details from users and just using their provided city/state or zip instead when placing pins?

exoticDFT commented 2 hours ago

Sorry for the alarm, seems this is just a coincidental location placement based on the likely centroid of the county. I was specifically noticing Fairfax County, VA, in which the entry "fairfax, virginia us" points to (note the missing comma between virginia and us).

I guess the real issue is whether we need to find a better way to remap inconsistent entries to the same point. Since places like DC have multiple entries all essentially pointing to the same place. However, this makes it so the pins are smaller than they should be if everyone was under the same entry. We have two entries for Fairfax, VA. With one leading to this problematic position of some random house.