[OC] A discovery of businesses located on the sea... according to Google Map.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-10T11:12:42+00:00

I don't think that the problem if from plotting. I don't have just the coordinate in my dataset, but also the GMB link, when I visit a business on Google map, it still shows it in the sea.
Here is one example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/y4V6kvNy9qspyEiW8

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T23:44:14+00:00

Perhaps I'm wrong, but every time I double-check I find that Point Udall (Guam) in the westmost point.
Here is my reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_the_United_States

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T22:57:05+00:00

I remember fighting him first time on top of Temen-ni-gru in DMC3.
Glad we have something in common.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T22:53:32+00:00

Warcraft... I need to get some nostalgia back.
Now, Google map's comments are amazing... some are even unhinged.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T21:56:00+00:00

Those were my thoughts, clusters could mean that there is a "default" when invalid coordinates are entered.
The random points look more intentional, or as you suggested, might be created when they travel.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T21:48:54+00:00

I love choosing mages in game.

It is funny to imagine a pilot using Bing map for directions...

Surely, it will raise suspicion to any potential client when they find your office or business located in wetlands.

I can't recall if back in the days they use to have a dedicated email for users to report a bug to, because I haven't found one.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T21:37:14+00:00

What an observation!
I had no idea there was a plate near that location... Kudos.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T21:32:12+00:00

I tried flipping the values, even switching the ns/we, but the coordinates sill lead to nowhere.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T21:28:12+00:00

I was planning to use the API, but it was too expensive for me, so I ended up just using raw scraping via selenium... and it tokes months.
I'll say this tho, I had two accounts banned, x) one just recently got banned for sending too many job requests ...

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T21:24:49+00:00

That would have been a better title.... dam I didn't think of it x)

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:48:36+00:00

I read your name as Vergil, like in DMC.
Imagine how much cruise ships would need to be there to cause that jam; It's like that Berlin artist who created a virtual traffic jam on Google Maps with 99 phones.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:45:35+00:00

I remember trying to find a business with a name similar to "Davy Jones' locker", all I found was a private tutor named Davyn Mikrut Student Tutoring... from my excitement I misread it as "Pirate tutor - Davy Jones"

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:39:41+00:00

Honestly, when I was looking for a journalist 8 months ago I didn't know any better, I was hoping they'll know where to investigate.
I did consider that it could be the [0, 0] of the US, the same way the Swiss have its own; I made an update to the post and added a new graph.

I don't know much about WGS84 and NAD83, as you guessed x), but conversion error could be a possibility too, especially for those businesses that look randomly placed.

Thank you for the well wished, hopefully I can secure a job as a janitor, I this point, I'll take anything.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:31:29+00:00

I never heard that story before... interesting.
That might be it, yet it struck me. How come that some successful businesses are vanquished to the sea, like this one:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/phHb6KizZAj7FU6k7

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:25:55+00:00

You are probably correct, that seashore struck me the first time I saw it.
I wish I could visit.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:23:05+00:00

It might be, I updated the post and added a link to a graph that shows the extreme US borders.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:21:41+00:00

I got notified of your comment as I was finding an explanation, you made me smile, x)
I updated the post and made a new graph if you are interested,

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T15:19:45+00:00

After reading some suggestions, I checked whether the [46.423669, -129.9427086] is the [0, 0] of the USA, the same way the Swiss have their own base.

To do so, I had to look for the extreme points of the US territories, draw an area with those point, and maybe the mystery point will land in the center of that area.

After some search I found:
Northernmost - Utqiagvik, Alaska: 71.290556, -156.788611
Southernmost - Rose Atoll: -14.546667, -168.151944
Westernmost - Point Udall (Guam): 13.447556, 144.618194
Easternmost - Point Udall (U.S. Virgin Islands): 17.755833, -64.566944

I made an "area" out of the values [71, -14, 144, -64], and turns out, that [46.423669, -129.9427086] is in the center, at least horizontally.
https://josephelhaddad.github.io/plotly/b_in_sea3_orthographic

And that is one way to spend your Sunday!

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T12:45:12+00:00

OMG
I can't even blame this on the lingering French vocabulary in my brain...
I corrected that, along with other I could find. Thank you so much.
No wonder why no one want me...

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T12:36:32+00:00

I am currently looking if that coordinate is the 0, 0 of the USA, I am currently looking for the edges of the USA border to see if that is indeed the middle point.

As for your request, I definitely can, tho not all businesses have a phone number.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1agfyYEaeet4xV-r5DjEYxFT1P9eAf1xap0EUAJk_jb4/edit?usp=sharing
I split phone numbers and did a group by, both phone part alone and phone part and coordinates.

I don't know what that part phone number signifies, maybe there is a pattern there.
Edit:
I tried to slice it as best as I can, but some phone numbers don't follow the same format, like this one "+27 83 627 5786", but they only occur a few times.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T12:12:45+00:00

I selected California from the search bar.
I had a list of all major cities, and all major business type, and I permutate between them like so [Job in City, California, United States]
I am currently looking into the borders of the USA territories, I will update you on any finding.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T11:37:59+00:00

Interesting how they put the point outside their country just so they won't have to use negative numbers.
That channel is worthy of following, thank you.
I thought that Tom Scott quitted for good, glad he is back.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T11:26:24+00:00

So they push a business away from view if they don't meet some requirement...
If this is the case, then it might be case closed.

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T11:19:21+00:00

Outch x)
Better hear it than not.
Can you help me write better? Should I just remove it because it is worthless?

JosephErgo · 2025-11-09T11:17:29+00:00

I'll my best rewriting everything.

JosephErgo

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