RI Effort: Important Places
Hey there, little Rhodies!
With the Functional Classification effort almost done, it's time to start looking ahead to the next Big Thing. After much (much!) discussion in the RI Editors Hangout (PM me if you want to join!), we're gonna take a stab at cleaning up all the Important Places around RI so that Wazers can have accurate information about the critical locations near them. This thread will be used to discuss the scope of this project and applicable standards, with input from the RI community and beyond. Then, once it's all been formalized in the RI Wiki, we can actually start getting to work, with the ultimate goal of locking these Places at L3 so they can't be messed with in the future.
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So, to start with, what is considered an Important Place? I figured we could begin with this definition:
A place is considered Important if it is essential to the functioning of a state or town and the lives of local residents.
Now, this is obviously a somewhat subjective definition, but it at least gives us an idea of what sort of places we'll need to look at. The next step would be to identify specific categories of places to focus on for this initial effort. Based on the above definition, we can break it down into two distinct areas, like so:
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So, to recap, here are the goals of this thread:
Sound good? Then sound off here in this thread and let's clean up RI!
With the Functional Classification effort almost done, it's time to start looking ahead to the next Big Thing. After much (much!) discussion in the RI Editors Hangout (PM me if you want to join!), we're gonna take a stab at cleaning up all the Important Places around RI so that Wazers can have accurate information about the critical locations near them. This thread will be used to discuss the scope of this project and applicable standards, with input from the RI community and beyond. Then, once it's all been formalized in the RI Wiki, we can actually start getting to work, with the ultimate goal of locking these Places at L3 so they can't be messed with in the future.
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So, to start with, what is considered an Important Place? I figured we could begin with this definition:
A place is considered Important if it is essential to the functioning of a state or town and the lives of local residents.
Now, this is obviously a somewhat subjective definition, but it at least gives us an idea of what sort of places we'll need to look at. The next step would be to identify specific categories of places to focus on for this initial effort. Based on the above definition, we can break it down into two distinct areas, like so:
- State Level
- State House
- Court Houses
- Airports
- Train Stations
- Hospitals/ERs
- Town Level
- Town Hall
- Police Station
- Firehouses
- Post Offices
- Schools
- Libraries
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So, to recap, here are the goals of this thread:
- Define "Important Place"
- Create a finite list of place types that meet the definition of Important Place
- Create a naming standard for each Important Place type
Sound good? Then sound off here in this thread and let's clean up RI!
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