Data Quality

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john

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Jan 6, 2012, 1:44:23 PM1/6/12
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Hi,

I am doing Category searches and seeing some strange results. For
instance when I search by Category ID 96 (Restaurants) I get a large
number of Doctors in addition, all marked as "Indian" restaurants.
Since they are all marked as the same type of restaurant, I thought
maybe there was a simple fix. I also see other problems as well, for
instance when I search for Airports (Category ID 55) I get several
results for Travel and Tourism businesses, but no actual airports.

I guess the quality of the data is just not very good?

Thanks,

John

john

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Jan 6, 2012, 2:05:58 PM1/6/12
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Also, it looks like some of your GPS coordinates are inaccurate even
if the Address is correct. For example, looking at the entry for
Quiznos subs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the following address:

7474 corporate blvd, baton rouge la

You have these coordinates: 30.4252223969,-91.1226654053

However the actual GPS location of that address according to Google is
30.431006,-91.112112

I know where this location is so I know the Google coordinates are
correct.

Is the address more reliable than the coordinates?

Thanks,

John
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