You’ll do better dealing with bad coordinates if
your system can recognize how bad particular cases are.
The worst error I see in Wikipedia is that
sometimes people get east and west confused, so there is this mirror image
of Europe reflected across the U.K. You find cute little Czech towns out
in the Atlantic with the seamounts and the shipwrecks.
If you computed the bounding circle for the
points, the radius would be an indicator of the degree of confusion that
would be highly effective for smoking out the craziest “rouge points”
There are other cases where reasonable parties could
disagree about the exact coordinates for things and it is not worth sweating
it. Where exactly is the state of Ohio or Lake Superior? These
things are shapes, not points. You couldn’t argue about an
uncertainty radius of 10 kilometers for a point like that, in fact,
the consumer system should know that it can move those labels around a little
bit to improve other layout metrics.