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RethinkDB database to support real-time virus analysis
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Geographic error? #100

Closed boristim66 closed 4 years ago

boristim66 commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/nextstrain/fauna/blob/master/source-data/geo_synonyms.tsv: 110: Dnipro Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh

Is is a joke? I think it is a new name of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine :)

tsibley commented 4 years ago

Looks like this mistake was introduced over three years during a large data reformatting commit. It was correct up to that point.

trvrb commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the catch @boristim66! These geo synonyms are obviously pretty ad hoc.