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Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by Saus on Monday July 06, 2015 @10:01AM (#9839094)
Fusionbox (Denver Colorado) is displayed in a Dutch Themepark. On top of the rollercoaster 'The Python', because their location is 'Python'.

http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/51.6468119/5.05352849... http://rcdb.com/897.htm

Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by scrozier on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:55PM (#9840913)
But wouldn't that be an awesome work environment?
Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by xando on Monday July 06, 2015 @10:08AM (#9839148)
Thanks for this. I will fix it.

This may happen. I was trying hard to get the all the locations right, although number of formats used may confused things.

Although here Python was recognised as Location, and came before the real Location.

Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by lake99 on Monday July 06, 2015 @10:17AM (#9839232)
The one for Scribd is wrong too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816112 is identified as a job in Berlin.

I think the mods should enforce some address formats to make things more convenient for tools such as yours.

Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by j_jochem on Monday July 06, 2015 @10:50AM (#9839489)
If you zoom in, it is actually placed in Frankfurt an der Oder. I'm not sure how they got THAT idea.
Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by lorenzhs on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:00PM (#9840050)
If you zoom in further, it is actually placed Slubice, Poland, just across the border from Frankfurt an der Oder ;) Still no idea how it got there, though.
Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by lorenzhs on Monday July 06, 2015 @10:55AM (#9839518)
L.A. is also mapped to Augsburg, Germany: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/48.3251666937866/10.8...
Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by vonmoltke on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:15AM (#9839671)
There is also one instance where it got mapped just outside Shreveport, Louisiana: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/32.45273455061945/-93...
Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by lorenzhs on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:52AM (#9839985)
Ah, now it makes sense -- the one in your link is parsed as "Santa Monica, LA" (LA for Louisiana) and the one I found as "L.A., onsite" which Google Maps maps (heh!) to a company called "MTU Onsite" in Lechhausen, Augsburg :)
Re:Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map by mrfusion on Monday July 06, 2015 @10:17AM (#9839231)
There are also a couple "java" locations in the middle of Virginia.