dolugen/openaq-browser

Search for country=PL returns a city called "pollutants"

tetianakh opened this issue · 2 comments

tetianakh commented

A request to https://api.openaq.org/v1/cities?country=PL returns a list of Polish cities, among which there's this:

{"city":"pollutants","country":"PL","locations":1,"count":66},

Of course, there's no city "pollutants" in Poland.

dolugen commented

Hello @tetianakh, thanks for reporting this issue!

I suspect it was a temporary test entry in the Polish database and was saved into OpenAQ database before it was removed. Looking at the records, there were only 10 hourly data requests for the "unused" location in "pollutants" city on Jul 29 2016 and no more.

As this is not directly related to the openaq-browser, we could make an issue about this on the openaq/openaq-api project, suggesting to investigate this and possibly remove these invalid entries.

cc @jflasher

jflasher commented

Thanks for catching this @tetianakh, as @dolugen said this is definitely something with the fetching and probably points to a momentary change in page structure. I've deleted the incorrect points and actually found some more for Thailand, so fixing that up now.

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