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There are four different Broadways in New York (the Manhattan/Bronx one, and one apiece for the three remaining boroughs). Two of them (the Manhattan one, obvio
by koenigdavidmj 12y ago
There are four different Broadways in New York (the Manhattan/Bronx one, and one apiece for the three remaining boroughs). Two of them (the Manhattan one, obviously, and the Queens one) intersect with some sort of 57th Street.
As a user, you probably want the Manhattan one unless you specify a borough. But as a developer, it's really hacky-feeling to hardcode "this one should immediately be preferred for no apparent technical reason".
- benburton 12y agoThe technical reason could be that the viewport was centered around Manhattan :)
- webmaven 12y agoI came across a similar problem once for searches that return identically named cities. It turns out that you get pretty close to DWIM if you rank the results by a combination of population and distance-to-current location (that is, you probably do want the smaller city if it happens to be really close).