Texas venue showing up on the south side of Chicago

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Texas venue showing up on the south side of Chicago

1lilithcat
Nov 7, 2023, 4:01 pm

Cornette Library, in Canyon, Texas, is showing on my Local list. But I'm on the south side of Chicago.

2norabelle414
Nov 7, 2023, 4:09 pm

Same problem here, I have a venue from Alberta, Canada showing up in my local list in Washington DC

3lorax
Nov 7, 2023, 4:21 pm

I notice that both offending venues have an intersection (indicated either with "and" or an ampersand) in their addresses, which may be a place to start.

4lesmel
Nov 7, 2023, 7:05 pm

Changing it to the real street address fixed it.

5kristilabrie
Nov 8, 2023, 7:34 am

>1 lilithcat: >4 lesmel: Okay, so all good? Marking as fixed, but please reopen if I'm mistaken.

6norabelle414
Nov 8, 2023, 9:23 am

>5 kristilabrie: One example was manually changed but there is still the bug that venues are showing up the wrong distance away just because there is an "and" or "&" in the address, even though they show up in the correct place on the map. Marigold Library System - Carbon Public Library* is still showing up as 1.6 miles away from me in the DC area, for no discernible reason. And it's very possible that there are more than just these two venues with this issue, so if the solution is to manually change the address of each one, they would all need to be found.

*please, no one fix this one so it can be used as an example

7MarthaJeanne
Nov 8, 2023, 10:12 am

As a BTW, can venues be combined?

https://www.librarything.com/venue/116981/Thalia-Wien

https://www.librarything.com/venue/29876/Thalia-Buchhandlung-Wien-Mitte-W3

Are the same bookstore, with the name of the first being inaccurate. There are lots of Thalia bookstores in Vienna.

8norabelle414
Nov 8, 2023, 10:25 am

>7 MarthaJeanne: yes, click to edit one of the venues and there will be a "combine" button on the right side.

9norabelle414
Nov 8, 2023, 10:29 am

>6 norabelle414: It occurred to me that Little Libraries often have intersections as their address because they don't have real addresses, and sure enough, there are several Little Libraries listed as near me that are in Louisiana, Philadelphia, and southwest Virginia.

10lesmel
Nov 8, 2023, 5:56 pm

Related maybe? https://www.librarything.com/topic/349352 -- I know there was something about the mapping references; but some of the venues got fixed when I removed the country from the state field. I'm not sure why the bug got marked fixed when conceptDawg states that a fix will take "bigger rework": https://www.librarything.com/topic/349352#8234576