Londonist stories
Place-anchored stories extracted faithfully from Londonist articles (their own
wording), with location clues for later pinning. Geocoding is deferred to a dedicated pass —
so far only points taken directly from articles' embedded maps are placed.
🗺️ Interactive map →
Centred on London · 438 geocoded places (clean/obvious places +
embedded-map pins) · click a pin for the story + coordinate provenance. (~47 trickier ones pending research.)
📋 Consolidated table →
485 place-stories · Place · Story · Location clues · Map (with coordinate
provenance) · source article (linked by title) · "Copy rich HTML table" for Sheets.
How it's built: Zyte (page fetch) → Sonnet extraction (only what Londonist says,
their tone) + location clues (cross-streets, partial addresses, "a short walk from…"). Where an
article embeds an interactive Google "My Map", we pull its hand-placed pins for exact
coordinates. A dedicated local geocoding pass then groups repeated places (one lookup serves
every story at that spot), caches all external geocodes in SQLite, and places the clean/obvious ones
first — recording each coordinate's provenance; trickier relative locations ("a back alley off X")
are deferred for research. Random samples of evergreen articles; ~37% yield a place-story.
Per-batch archive (earlier place-lookup/closure columns):
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