Location as the Anchor: Mapping Species, Geology, UFOs, and Bigfoot to 105,000 Coordinates

Part 2 of 5. Part 1 covered the RAM crashes and data ingestion nightmare. This part is about what happens after the data is in the database — and why having data is not the same as having a site. So the data was in PostgreSQL. The RAM crashes were behind me. 105,757 locations, deduplicated, sitting in a clean table. I made the mistake of feeling good about this. Within a day I was staring at the database thinking: these are just rows. A name, a coordinate, a source tag. There's nothing here that