_geocode_location's node-distance fallback (geocode_max_km, 40km) is a
proxy for "is this plausible" that only makes sense when the node's own
position is the best guess we have at the area. It doesn't hold for a
citywide/patched feed: node-002 sits in Westchester but relays "New York
City - NYPD Citywide 2 Patch", ~56km from the addresses on it. Every real,
correctly-geocoded address on that talkgroup was rejected by this check,
every time -- location_coords stayed permanently null for the whole
system, which killed the location_proximity correlation signal and let
duplicate incidents form for the same event reported at two nearby
addresses two minutes apart ("Shots Fired at Jackson Avenue" /
"Shots Fired at 1108 Jackson Avenue", 2026-09-20 ~23:00 UTC, merged by
hand via the Archive page's attach/detach while this fix went in).
trust_named_region skips the node-distance rejection exactly when the
query already carries a place name that isn't the node's own position --
operator-set area_context, or a municipality parsed from the talkgroup's
own name. The anchor path is untouched; an anchor's own radius is always
authoritative when one has been resolved.
Also fixes a compounding defect found while verifying: the query was
grafting the node's own COUNTY onto an already-self-named region
("...New York City..., Westchester, New York"), which is self-contradictory
and could degrade the geocode independent of the distance check. The
node's county is now used only when nothing else names the place; state
stays in both branches since it's coarse enough to be correct either way.
Extracted the query-assembly logic into a pure, unit-tested helper
(_location_query_parts) rather than testing it only through the full
extraction pipeline.
Filed #160 as a follow-up: place_verifier.py's verify() has the identical
no-anchor gap for transcript place-name correction, not fixed here.
Verified: 422 pass, 0 fail (9 new tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
