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Originally Posted by Roger
While wandering around the Earth looking for FRC events, I noticed that the pinpoints don't match up with the actual competition location. Boston, for example, points to downtown (where "Boston" is printed), not several miles west at Boston University where the event is located. New Zealand's is held in a national park? (Okay, so this may be true -- why not in a national park?) And the Championship is being held a mile or so southeast -- in a cemetery?!? I don't know how detailed you were trying to make the maps, but I can imagine some college student trying to hitch his way to an event using this map.
But it's still a fun map to see all the locations. |
Good points, some of the regionals have not announced locations (i.e. New Zealand, Dallas and such), so a default search point is used temporarily. However, most of the information bubbles on the events will guide you to an official website just in case we don't update fast enough.
For the "cemetery" issue, that has to do with multiple events (i.e. FTC, FLL , FRC World Championships) been scheduled on the same GPS point, so we have to find a way to not overwrite the point. Right now there is an automated script to shift the points slightly so they don't completely overlap. However, we need to make sure the points are still accurate. So hopefully no college students end up in a cemetery with a robot !