[Places] Misclassification of French city halls

[Thomas Weiss (ThomasWeiss)]

I have noticed that a lot of city halls in France are classified as hotels, presumably because city halls are typically called "hôtel de ville" in French and classification is performed with some kind of pattern matching on the place's name.

One such example is place ID faf8a8b2-33b5-4db4-b486-d98a8d0924de which has a basic_category of hotel and a taxonomy of {'primary': 'hotel', 'hierarchy': ['lodging', 'hotel'], 'alternates': NULL}.

[Dana Bauer (danabauer)]

Thanks for flagging this, Thomas Weiss (@ThomasWeiss), and for providing an example. I'll forward to our Places team.

[Warren Ehrenfried (warrenehrenfried)]

Hi Thomas Weiss (@ThomasWeiss), thanks so much for this example. We do use some pattern matching in mapping incoming categories to Overture's category taxonomy and we have had to correct inaccurate mappings in the past. However in this case the feature we received from our provider came with the category hotel. We'd like to track issues related to "wrong categorization" alongside other attribute level issues. We plan to address issues like this in the future once we have a framework for 'fixing' provider data and passing that on to the end user.

[Thomas Weiss (ThomasWeiss)]

Thanks Warren for your response. Let me know if there's any way I can help - I can easily share the IDs of many more places affected by the miscategorization.