Re: Eurocentrism, incorrect unit abbreviations, and proprietary Royalist Engish (sic) terms

Hi Vicki,
I could not agree more ;)
The best way to start advancing schema.org (and understanding its structure) is most likely to provide additional examples and documentation, not proposals for reorganizing the type hierarchy.

As for the examples etc.: Here is what I created a couple of years ago:

https://schema.org/docs/hotels.html

Martin 

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> Am 11.07.2018 um 17:32 schrieb Vicki Tardif <vtardif@google.com>:
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> Naming things is difficult, particularly when trying to both encompass the definition of the class and be succinct. And that is before you try to serve an international audience.
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> I am not sure it is fruitful to attempt to rename types, particularly those that have been in use for a long time.
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> A better use of our energy would be to expand the documentation, particularly demonstrating how to combine various ideas like Offer and CampingPitch so a user has a clear understanding of how to markup that there is a campground (in US-parlance) with a particular site available on 2018-07-11 for $20.
> 
> - Vicki
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:12 AM Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Re more complicated:
>> The concept of MTEs is a bit more difficult to understand, some tools will not validate data properly, Microdata has non proper support for MTEs, and the approach for MTES varies by syntax (Microdata, RDFa, JSON-LD).
>> Martin
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>> martin hepp
>> www:  http://www.heppnetz.de/
>> email: mhepp@computer.org
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>> > Am 11.07.2018 um 16:23 schrieb Webfeet <schema@webfeet.org>:
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>> >> On 11/07/18 09:04, Martin Hepp wrote:
>> >> ...  We could solve that by removing the LocalBusiness supertype and instead recommend MTE markup for commercial sites. 
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>> > +1
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>> > An MTE is your friend... :-)
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>> > It makes sense that if there is an "X" that allows camping and provides services, it should be marked up as a place "Where You Pitch Your Tent" and "LocalBusiness"...
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>> >> But there is a trade-off: it will break the hierarchy and make markup more difficult for the commercial ones...
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>> > ??
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>> > Don't see that using an MTE makes markup more difficult - beyond knowing that you should use an MTE.
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>> > Regards,
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>> >   Webfeet
>> >   "roleName":"Interested Observer" ...
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