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		coolThingsFirst 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone in Seattle hates AI Google has monopoly of places API, I tried foursquare and their public dataset and got tons of wrong locations of the places. It even got the location of the Eiffel tower wrong.

mips_avatar 35 days ago [–]

That’s why you have to make your own geocoder

coolThingsFirst 35 days ago | [–]

How and how precise is the end data?

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