- From: John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:50:20 -0000
- To: <public-lod@w3.org>
> The only problem I see with the example is that we don't have counties > in Scotland, we have districts. In Quebec and Louisiana and other > historically catholic places we have parishes. Is Scotland a "state" > in the American sense, not really. You could use things like vc:county > and vc:state and just say that the naming is bad, I guess. > > Geonames tackles this problem in a language-neutral way by having > several levels of administrative areas but they also construct a > hierarchy which might be a little verbose for this use case. > As it's a Friday: six non golden rules of geo: 1. Any attempt to codify a series of geo rules into a formal, one size fits all, taxonomy will fail due to Rule 2. 2. Geo is bizarre, odd, eclectic and utterly human. 3. People will in the main agree with Rule 1 with the exception of the rules governing their own region, area or country, which they will think are perfectly logical. 4. People will, in the main, think that postal, administrative and colloquial hierarchies are one and the same thing and will overlap. 5. Taking Rule 4 into account, they will then attempt to codify a one size fits all geo taxonomy. 6. There is no Rule 6, see Rule 1. Source: http://www.ygeoblog.com/blog/2009/02/23/uk-addressing-the-non-golden-rul es-of-geo-or-help-my-county-doesnt-exist/ John This email is only intended for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Unless stated otherwise, the contents of this email are personal to the writer and do not represent the official view of Ordnance Survey. Nor can any contract be formed on Ordnance Survey's behalf via email. We reserve the right to monitor emails and attachments without prior notice. Thank you for your cooperation. Ordnance Survey Adanac Drive Southampton SO16 0AS Tel: 08456 050505 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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