Institutions: double longitude instead of latitude/longitude about inspire

[kaplun]

Yep, that would be indeed great to tackle, especially in view of loading all record onto QA. I might look into it on Monday, unless anyone volunteers for implementing a script that takes a list of addresses and feed them (slowly) to Google to obtain geocoding.

[kaplun]

@inspirehep/inspire-dir how were this numbers captured in the first place?

We were thinking of writing an easy tool to correct/fill all these numbers based on Google API. Google results offer the possibility to also return the rectangle where an institute is included and this could be used to double check that proposed modifications are consistent or totally on a different place.

[eamonnmag]

You don't need to use Google. As shown before, this API does it using whatever endpoint you want, and some have no access limits at all - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geopy

[kaplun]

Thanks, I have missed this information. Nice API. Now this open up the question of which provider is the best. I assume OpenStreet map will be great in certain countries but not all.

Also to cross check the data we have so far, I guess we can use the available distance function to verify that the coordinate we have are within a ray of e.g. 10KMs

[eamonnmag]

openstreet map is pretty cool. Take some of the more obscure addresses alongside some common ones and see how it does. It doesn't need to be exact, just good enough :)

[aw-bib]

To my limited experience openstreetmap beats google hands down in the parts of Europe I travelled (even in the more obscure backyards), while it seemed that the US is still Google country. Probably, it is an option to use whatever is best?

[kaplun]

Mmh. I have just tried a simple Italian address from INSPIRE but it failed miserably on StreetMap. The benefit of Google is that it does way a lot of heuristic processing thus being able to interpret the weirdest situation.

We're trying a bit more. Anyway it's for a one-off mini project to clean up coordinates, so whatever service it's going to be good.

But indeed the above library also offers wrapper for e.g. specific French maps, so it might be beneficial to use dedicated services.

[jacquerie]

Here it is on Sentry: https://sentry.cern.ch/inspire-sentry/inspire-labs-qa/group/601659/