British Colonial America after 1776?
I found this while trying to standardize Hopewell, New Jersey. This standardized location is listed as New Jersey, British Colonial America... starting the same year that the United States was founded.
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I've seen a few like that, too, @BraydenGraves. I suspect the placename standardization algorithm at work, but I don't know for sure.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile Can the algorithm add new standardized places, or does it just select from an existing list? If it's the latter, that's not the issue here. It's a selectable location on the list, not what was typed in:
I should've had a screenshot of the whole list from the beginning, this is way more clear.
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The standardization algorithm does many strange things. I reported one a few months ago where the algorithm had converted a placename in the 1950 US census to a place that existed in Colonial America.
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In that instance, I suggest that it's the base location data that's wrong.
The village of Hopewell, Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America is dated 1776-1838.
Which is fairly crazy as the level above is the township Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States and is dated 1776-1838.
I have submitted a request to replace BCA for Hopewell by US.
None of that means that the placename algorithm won't foul up anyway, of course, even if the village is corrected.
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FYI - The 1776-1838 for Hopewell is now in the US, not BCA.
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