[Developers] Freebase and geo location information

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Reilly Hayes <rfh at metaweb.com> wrote:

> We do have a bot that does this.  Look here to see recent activity:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/history/user/user/geo_bot
>
> That said, it could be better.  We'll look into your suggested sources.

What geocoding data source and algorithm is being used?  It doesn't
seem to agree very well with Google's map data since it's showing 176
Federal St. in Boston in the middle of a building near 20 High St.
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000b8ae800

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Gordon Mackenzie <gordon at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Look to the footer for almost all pages and you will see 'explore' and
> 'explore2' to see a more interest view of the data associated.

You'll only see that footer if you press F8 first.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure why the types and properties aren't displayed on this page;
> that looks like a bug to me. Since it's an instance of the Mailing Address
> type, however, it wouldn't have a name: Instances of compound-value types
> are not typically named.

That's been the behavior of CVTs for a while now.  I think it affects
anything that isn't typed with /common/topic.  It would be great to
get the page to display the properties rather than having to resort to
the explore/explore2 views.

Also note that the geocode added to the mailing address CVTs is
essentially invisible to the client (and thus unchangeable).  If you
look at the Headquarters property where the example above is linked
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000b8ae775 it
doesn't include the geocode in the editing flyout and there's really
no way to get to it other than through MQL or an Explore view.  It
also doesn't get used to trigger a Google map on the parent topic
since it's tucked away on a CVT.

Tom