Place name search when no `geo` is present in `spatialCoverage`?

[iannesbitt]

I've asked Phil Durbin at Dataverse about incorporating quantitative location information in their records. Dataverse may not store this type of information, but they do have some qualitative location info (place names) for many datasets. In anticipation that we will not get any coordinates, perhaps we could do something with the spatialCoverage values we do have. For example, we will get values like the following:

  spatialCoverage: "Canada",

  spatialCoverage: "Montréal, Québec, Canada, Région métropolitaine",

Looking things up using e.g. geopy would be easy, but it's possible that this could result in hundreds or thousands of lookups per day which may verge on paid tiers of API calls.