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Inaccurate location information in bulletin data #1

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@cillay

The record for incident 15006077 comes out from the web request with a location of " at 100-BLK Crossroads Blvd, Cary, NC, " and an examination of the police report itself cites the precise location as "419 Crossroads Blvd Cary, NC 27511". So we are not only dealing with an issue of accuracy versus precision, but also accuracy versus just plain wrong.

Adding a requirement to scrape the police report PDF for a usable address was initially perceived as a nice-to-have but it seems to have crept into the must-have category. This adds quite a bit of complexity to the project, but should also improve its usefulness by a considerable margin.

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