Londonist stories — geocoded
Place-anchored stories extracted faithfully from Londonist articles (their own
wording), each geocoded to a point. Place lookups / closure checks are deferred to a later
batch pass — for now it's just the best place name, the story, and the location.
🗺️ Interactive map →
Zoomable, clustered map of London · 489 place-stories ·
click a pin for the story + source.
📋 Consolidated table →
489 stories across all samples · Place · Story · Lat/Lon ·
Google Maps link · source article · "Copy rich HTML table" for Sheets.
How it's built: Zyte (page fetch) → Sonnet extraction (only what Londonist says,
their tone) → Google Geocoding API (rooftop, honest precision). Each story also carries any
location clues from the text (cross-streets, partial addresses, "a short walk from…")
for later pin-checking. Where an article embeds an interactive Google "My Map", we pull
its hand-placed pins for exact coordinates — that adds 128 extra mapped places (parks,
bookshops, literary spots). Random samples of evergreen articles; ~37% yield a place-story.
Per-batch archive (with the earlier place-lookup/closure columns):
250-sample100-sample