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An ongoing effort to catalog the holes in the open data ecosystem. [RETIRED]
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Incorrect/imprecise geometry type #8

Open wboykinm opened 10 years ago

wboykinm commented 10 years ago

Where spatial information is included with open data, I regularly see polygon centroid geometry attached in place of the actual polygon geometry. Which can of course lead to all sorts of fun errors. Also a problem when only street names are provided for geocoding (related to #2) and line geometry is more appropriate.

Sort of a kicker to solve, since it requires a fairly advanced (for spreadsheets) sense of geospatial data. GeoJSON can help, WKT can help, PostGIS can help.

waldoj commented 10 years ago

This is fascinating—I had no idea that this problem existed. Thank you!