Re:Show HN: News geolocation website
by rjmunro on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:15AM
(#17592902)
Many things don't happen at a point, they happen in an area, e.g. if something is relevant to France as a whole, don't show it as happening in Paris, use something to indicate a bounding box or radius which the story is centred on.
If something happens in Paris, show it in Paris, not in some random particular location in the middle of Paris, unless you know that it really happened at that exact location.
Re:Show HN: News geolocation website
by zack2018 on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:28AM
(#17592995)
I see your point, it's something listed in my list of bugs to fix, for now i am still in an idea validation phase where I want to validate the concept before committing more time to it, but I agree, this should definitely be fixed first :)
If something happens in Paris, show it in Paris, not in some random particular location in the middle of Paris, unless you know that it really happened at that exact location.
See this: https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn... for the kind of issue you can cause.