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Fusionbox (Denver Colorado) is displayed in a Dutch Themepark. On top of the rollercoaster 'The Python', because their location is 'Python'.

http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/51.6468119/5.05352849... http://rcdb.com/897.htm

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But wouldn't that be an awesome work environment?

Thanks for this. I will fix it.

This may happen. I was trying hard to get the all the locations right, although number of formats used may confused things.

Although here Python was recognised as Location, and came before the real Location.

The one for Scribd is wrong too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816112 is identified as a job in Berlin.

I think the mods should enforce some address formats to make things more convenient for tools such as yours.

If you zoom in, it is actually placed in Frankfurt an der Oder. I'm not sure how they got THAT idea.

If you zoom in further, it is actually placed Slubice, Poland, just across the border from Frankfurt an der Oder ;) Still no idea how it got there, though.

L.A. is also mapped to Augsburg, Germany: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/48.3251666937866/10.8...

There is also one instance where it got mapped just outside Shreveport, Louisiana: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/32.45273455061945/-93...

Ah, now it makes sense -- the one in your link is parsed as "Santa Monica, LA" (LA for Louisiana) and the one I found as "L.A., onsite" which Google Maps maps (heh!) to a company called "MTU Onsite" in Lechhausen, Augsburg :)

There are also a couple "java" locations in the middle of Virginia.

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