Round the map coordinates for World Map Interaction answers
See original GitHub issueWhat steps will reproduce the problem?
1. View content statistics for the oppia.org Exploration "Welcome to Oppia" for
the state named "Finding Helsinki".
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect: summary of commonly selected locations.
Actual: the coordinates shown are so precise they can't be summarized.
(examples below)
What operating system are you using?
OSX / Chrome
Please provide any additional information below.
- See attached screenshot. The coordinates provided by Google Maps API have so
many decimal places of precision that they can't be summarized to a useful "top
5" locations summary. As such, none of the top answers match more than 1-2
times despite 5,000+ learners reaching the page. Example coordinate precision:
45.460130637921004,46.845703125
Suggested solutions:
1) Easier: perhaps consider rounding coordinates to the nearest hundreds or
thousands places (though would that be losing too much precision for cases
desiring street addresses?)
2) Better: rather than displaying coordinates (which may not have much
immediate meaning to human reviewers), if Google Maps API has the ability to
return a "nearest known city" string it may be best... (though specific to this
state which is focused on cities). Another option might be returning a "nearest
known address" string if Maps API can do it.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by anu...@google.com
on 10 Jun 2015 at 6:26
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Issue Analytics
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- Created 8 years ago
- Comments:14 (6 by maintainers)
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I suggest not looking at this yet. Maybe take a look at the issues labelled “LaCE Quality Team” and see if you find one that you can tackle?
Stats/ Summary for “Finding Helsinki” looks like this now. Wanted to check if any change is expected before diving deep into this 7 year old issue. Can someone let me know as I am looking for a good second issue?