Often, when a database entry is geotagged with a country, province, or city, trying to plot that entry on a map will result in a marker being drawn at the exact

Often, when a database entry is geotagged with a country, province, or city, trying to plot that entry on a map will result in a marker being drawn at the exact geometric centre of the region, implying more precision than actually exists. When the database entry represents something important to people, like stolen property or a missing person, and something happens to be at the place the map marker lands, desperate people can do desperate things.