Stuytown is missing

[danvk]

Stuytown & Peter Cooper Village are conspicuously devoid of markers:

Surely there are images in these locations. But they're at cross-streets that no longer exist. This is a situation where the Google Maps geocoder is clearly an anachronism.

Possible solutions would be hand-coding this area, or building a "pure grid" geocoder for Manhattan which extends the existing grid.

[danvk]

Many of the Stuytown images are in OldNYC, it's just that they have inaccurate geocodes, e.g. http://www.oldnyc.org/#711316f-a says "15th Street (East) and Avenue A" but is geocoded to 15th and 5th.

[riordan]

What if we just clustered these and did them manually?

[danvk]

I think that's the right approach. Has anyone made a big list of coordinates / formulas for the Manhattan grid?

Nice to see you're lurking @riordan :)

[riordan]

Missed ya buddy.

Are these ones where the geocode fails (group 1) or where we know there are more things getting geocodes that shouldn't?

If it's the former, it's a lot easier to break apart.

On 12/17/15 11:28, Dan Vanderkam wrote:

I think that's the right approach. Has anyone made a big list of coordinates / formulas for the Manhattan grid?

Nice to see you're lurking @riordan https://github.com/riordan :)

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[danvk]

I noticed that Google Maps API results include "partial_match": true when they're wrong, so those should be easy to filter out.

[danvk]

Hoping to get this out soon. There are some great new photos in this update.

[danvk]

Handy commands for doing before/after shots:

(c = map.getCenter(), {lat: c.lat(), lng: c.lng()})
map.getZoom()

and then

map.setCenter(...);
map.setZoom(...);