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"Step one: matching up the venues" - for your interest Bopgig uses a Google search on foursquare.com to obtain venues, seems to work decently and is automated.
by adrianwaj 14y ago
"Step one: matching up the venues" - for your interest Bopgig uses a Google search on foursquare.com to obtain venues, seems to work decently and is automated. The 4sq api seemed to return too many errors when last tested.
- simonw 14y agoI've been using that technique (site:foursquare.com name-of-venue) as a backup, but we've been taking the opportunity to fix obviously incorrect lat/lon data on our venues at the same time so we avoided full automation.
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- ig1 14y agoWe're you scraping google for that, and did you have any problems with that ? (i.e. Google tend to block automated queries)
- simonw 14y agoI normally just provide the human who's going through the crowdsourcing interface with a link to that search on Google in a new window - no need to scrape anything if you do it like that :)