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The data schema for the ConfIDent project.
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Values of Location for country, region and city properties #10

Open Julian-tib opened 2 years ago

Julian-tib commented 2 years ago

The RWTH Team has suggested to stick to ISO norms for the values of Country and Region. They implemented the location notation like this for example: CA/BC/Vancouver

Codes for countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Officially_assigned_code_elements Codes for regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Officially_assigned_code_elements

This seems like a good approach to avoid ambiguities with location descriptions. They also have managed to automatically fill in geo-coordinates based on this notation. They are using geograpy3.

See for an overview of already used locations: https://confident.dbis.rwth-aachen.de/or/index.php?title=Category:Location

StroemPhi commented 2 years ago

This is rather info for our internal JIRA. In the MDS City, Country and Region are all NamedTHings and thus inherit the External ID property which can be used exactly for that. What I could do though is change the description of these location entities to reflect this.

Julian-tib commented 2 years ago

The current implementation of these fields will be further improved upon by makeing use of the nominatim service.