For the record, we don't actually have a scraper for buildings. The current data was manually (?) collected around 2017, as you've surmised.

I'm 95% certain this could be scraped from https://maps.umd.edu/map/index.html, which seems to know the latitude and longitude of every building. So somewhere in its myriad of initial requests it's getting the lat/long data for all umd buildings. I just don't have the time right now to figure out exactly which url they're calling to retrieve this data. If someone else is willing to put the time into this and figure it out, please let me know and I'll likely implement a scraper for this. (eg here's one interesting endpoint it calls, though no lat/long in this one).

Until we can write a scraper for this (which we definitely should), it's probably good enough to manually add buildings for now. We don't have to get 100% coverage of campus, just enough that any glaringly obvious buildings (like iribe) aren't missing.

I've added iribe and pyon-chen. Please let me know of any other major buildings missing and I'll add them.

I think Yahentamitsi, the Fernandez IDEA Factory, and Johnson-Whittle Hall should be added since they do appear on the UMD Maps webpage. Other than those buildings, I think the API response should be sufficiently up to date/future-proofed. Thanks!

all three added. I'll keep this issue open to track writing a scraper for the buildings.

Needs to be updated with building 433 - the School of Public Policy building

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