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Missing the Point – GeoIP's, Points, Polygons, and a Precarious Farm in Kansas

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I've lost track of how many times I've had to explain that "no, there is not a staggering amount of latent demand in the middle of Kansas" to people trying to do metrics :)

At least return a circular error probability and display a circle.

Yes, please. Much of the frustration and confusion around location would be easier to deal with if people viewed coordinates as an uncertainty rather than an absolute value.

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