[ckan-discuss] Geographic Metadata

Tim McNamara paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz
Sun May 22 06:26:57 BST 2011


I'm most of the way through moving the data catalogues at
opengovernmentdata.org to CKAN.

I think that we should have some geographic metadata conventions which are
greater than the country list we currently have. Specifically, I think that
we should have a continental reference as well as the ability to have
narrower regions.

As a first shot, how about
  - region => continental
  - locality => county, province, etc

I chose region rather than continental areas as I think that is closer to
its meaning in the world of inter-governmental organisations.



Tim McNamara
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