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Yeah looks like there were a few bad geocodes that I didn't catch. paulitex's idea further down about a standard format for these things would be really nice to see b/c parsing out the locations in some cases was kind of a mess.
I recently did a project with just geocoding in Ontario and it took a while to fix all the various cases for the 600+ volunteer-entered locations. Bonus points: only some (and different) geographical information was available for each address. Postal codes/zip would be ideal for this.
Well, maybe. But, coming across a webcam these days isn't that hard to be quite honest. Of course, you could make it optional, but would be an interesting experiment to see if the interviewee would social engineer to borrow a webcam if necessary; in a way, if your future employee isn't willing enough to make the effort to do this simple thing, would you still hire this person (granted, there will always be introverts in your employee pool, but presumably you will interact with this employee in person once hired)?
