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That query returns three interpretations. This level of restriction to "TOWN" isn't enough on its own, because there are many places around the world with the same names (Boston, MA and Boston, Linconlshire, England; Erie, PA and Erie, IL) There is logic that is captured in the legacy geocoder module in addition to the Ingestion 2 coarse_geocode module that we will need to be aware of when reworking geocoder. Both of these modules are careful, when given a place name, to consider any existing coordinate data that may appear in the record to weed out false results for geographic features that are not applicable. They are also careful to weight results, for example, in the case where we're given nothing by a town name from an American archive's metadata. In this case, we'll weight the candidate interpretations in favor of United States locations.

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