[Geowanking] When geodata goes bad

[Paul Hastings]

Maciej

for that map, i cleaned out a bunch of the obviously bad points (manually & 
with some simple sql rules), what was left was stuff i couldn't really make 
a judgement call on--ie it *could* be valid lat/long.

>strategies people on the list may have come across, and how we might apply 
>them to situations where lay people are asked to provide their own geodata.

well if you can somehow get their country (say maybe nigel's 
inetaddressLocator) at the same time, you could simply intersect that point 
with their country & return whether that point is where its supposed to be. 
i suppose it would be simplest to show folks where they just they were.

>I wrote a more extensive post on this topic yesterday in my weblog 
>(http://www.idlewords.com/weblog.09.2003.html#272); if anyone has

visual feedback seems the cheapest way to get cleaner data into geoUrl. but 
i'd also say that determining if a given point is within a single country 
shouldn't be that resource intensive.

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