Demo: lots of news piling up on "william J day bvd".

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OpenBlock is a web application and RESTful service that allows users to browse and search their local area for "hyper-local news

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Demo: lots of news piling up on "william J day bvd". #209

Closed slinkp closed 12 years ago

slinkp commented 12 years ago

http://demo.openblockproject.org/streets/william-j-day-blvd/1972-1995-/?radius=8 Questions:

Why is this address mapped as being in the middle of the water? (possibly we have a point in the water and that's the nearest block?)
Why are all these articles tagged with that address/location?

slinkp commented 12 years ago

This turns out to be a variant of #89. We're getting news that has nothing more specific than "Boston, MA" and the openblock geotagger code that the Globe is using is configured such that the center of Boston falls in a spot in the water where william J day boulevard is the nearest street with a numbered address. So in a way, we're consuming our own bad data.

slinkp commented 12 years ago

Ticket imported from Trac: http://developer.openblockproject.org/ticket/216 Reported by: slinkp