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Poll Question:
Would you like to see counties added to the location DB? | | Total Votes: | 38 | | 1. Yes | 12 | 31.58 % | 
| | 2. No | 18 | 47.37 % |
| | 3. Don't Care | 8 | 21.05 % |
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King Pie
 
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Location DB Suggestion
< on 4/6/2005 5:54 AM >
|  | | | I had a suggestion a while back, but never got commented on in the suggestion thread, so now I'd like to bring it to everyone's attention:
Basically my idea is to split the Ontario UE DB into counties, but not as a seperate level, but just on the surface, so as to make finding locations near you easier(this all about YOU afterall).
The reason this is nessissary is that Ontario is the largest grouping of locations, 541 as of right now, and finding little towns anywhere makes it difficult, you have to pull out a map everytime, having counties would make it possible to know right away what's close by.
How I invision it looking is having a main county heading over the cities(not adding a new level to click down, that could get annoying) so it would look something like this:
COUNTY
town
town
town
COUNTY
town
town
etc.
Ok, that's basically it... this could of course be applied to other locations once they get bigger, however I'm mainly concerned with Ontario as it is the largest grouping... and I'm from Ontario.
King Pie
[last edit 4/6/2005 5:59 AM by King Pie - edited 1 times]
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NoSuchPerson
    
Stop, or I'll ask you again!
| | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 1 on 4/6/2005 6:00 AM >
| | | | To help make it easier to organize these, I would suggest that if this does get implimented, that when you're creating a DB entry, there'd be a field to put in what County it belongs in as well.
-Ex
Unit calling radio say again? |
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
Location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
| | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 2 on 4/6/2005 11:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by King Pie
I had a suggestion a while back, but never got commented on in the suggestion thread, so now I'd like to bring it to everyone's attention:
Basically my idea is to split the Ontario UE DB into counties, but not as a seperate level, but just on the surface, so as to make finding locations near you easier(this all about YOU afterall).
The reason this is nessissary is that Ontario is the largest grouping of locations, 541 as of right now, and finding little towns anywhere makes it difficult, you have to pull out a map everytime, having counties would make it possible to know right away what's close by.
How I invision it looking is having a main county heading over the cities(not adding a new level to click down, that could get annoying) so it would look something like this:
COUNTY
town
town
town
COUNTY
town
town
etc.
Ok, that's basically it... this could of course be applied to other locations once they get bigger, however I'm mainly concerned with Ontario as it is the largest grouping... and I'm from Ontario.
King Pie
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i can see where in some places it can be useful, but here in quebec they abolished counties years ago and went with "mrcs" a lot bigger and most people dont even know which MRC they live in
Montreal Expos 1969-2004 Forever Proud Lets Keep The Dream Alive |
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Avatar-X
 
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 3 on 4/6/2005 12:38 PM >
| | | | In order for this to work, I'd have to obtain a database of town names and corresponding counties, for all of North America. I don't even know where to get it for Ontario.
However, I am working on a mapping solution, which will show the locations on a map.
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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NoSuchPerson
Stop, or I'll ask you again!
| | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 4 on 4/6/2005 1:08 PM >
| | | | Av...how about if people from areas volunteer to do it for you? Here, I'll be nice:
Ajax = Durham
Allanburg = Niagara
Almonte = Lanark
Appleton = Lanark
Arthur = Wellington
Aurora = York
Balaclava = Renfrew
Barrie = Simcoe
Bayfield = Simcoe
Belleville = Hastings
Thamesville = Middlesex
Bowmanville = Durham
Bradford = York
Brampton = Peel
Breslau = Waterloo
Brighton = Northumberland
Britt = Parry Sound
Brockville = Grenville
Burlington = Brant
Caledon = Peel
Caledonia = Haldimand/Norfolk
Campbellford = Hastings
Campbellville = Leeds
Carp = Lanark
Cayuga = Haldimand Norfolk
That should get people started.
Unit calling radio say again? |
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 5 on 4/6/2005 2:14 PM >
| | | | I really like the map idea, I have no idea where most counties are anyway (even though I voted yes, before reading the thread...I'm dumb sometimes). Maps are cool.
yep. |
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IIVQ
 
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| |  |  | | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 6 on 4/6/2005 6:08 PM >
| | | | Why can't you ask all people from Ontario to rename their towns so that the (fictional) town of Townie in Countya would become "[Countia] Townie"
Tijmen
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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King Pie
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 7 on 4/7/2005 3:33 AM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
In order for this to work, I'd have to obtain a database of town names and corresponding counties, for all of North America. I don't even know where to get it for Ontario.
However, I am working on a mapping solution, which will show the locations on a map.
-av
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instead of that you could just have a drop box and people would choose which county to assinge it to, understandable there may be some mistakes but all in all it should be 95% correct
and they could be corrected by mods or suggestions by members maybe?
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'Dukes
Noble Donor
Gender: Male
At least someone llikes me
| |  | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 8 on 4/10/2005 2:08 AM >
| | | | THe LDB shouldn't be used to "Find " anything. If you can't find it yourself, you need to do more investigation.
The LDB is crap, get rid of it ; most folks don't "Need" the LDB to find locations.
If you don't know a county or township, you've got problems right away.
What do you want a treasure map?
I got your tour winner right here pussies, at least he'd crash out trying. |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 9 on 4/10/2005 3:04 AM >
| | | | The LDB is a place to combine information, stories, and photos about a specific place.
It is not a treasure map.
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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King Pie
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 10 on 4/10/2005 8:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by 'Dukes
THe LDB shouldn't be used to "Find " anything. If you can't find it yourself, you need to do more investigation.
The LDB is crap, get rid of it ; most folks don't "Need" the LDB to find locations.
If you don't know a county or township, you've got problems right away.
What do you want a treasure map?
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What's the point of having the names of the towns then if people are suppost to find it themselves, might aswell organize the locations by type of location(which actually isn't a bad idea could organize all the hospitals by hospitals and factories by factories[click like a button for that option].. could be another option.. but not the main thing)? And even if you are suppost to find it yourself, I'm sure you like to go to places just to see it even if someone else found it first right?
I know where counties are, I just don't know every tiny village, town, hamlet in each county, which is why you need to break out a map each time... this is why organization into county subheadings would help a lot...
Dukes, if you can name every town and village, off the top of your head, in your county then I'd be impressed.
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'Dukes
Noble Donor
Gender: Male
At least someone llikes me
| | | Re: Location DB Suggestion
<Reply # 11 on 4/10/2005 11:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by King Pie
What's the point of having the names of the towns then if people are suppost to find it themselves, might aswell organize the locations by type of location(which actually isn't a bad idea could organize all the hospitals by hospitals and factories by factories[click like a button for that option].. could be another option.. but not the main thing)? And even if you are suppost to find it yourself, I'm sure you like to go to places just to see it even if someone else found it first right?
I know where counties are, I just don't know every tiny village, town, hamlet in each county, which is why you need to break out a map each time... this is why organization into county subheadings would help a lot...
Dukes, if you can name every town and village, off the top of your head, in your county then I'd be impressed.
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Apparently you can't recognize dripping sarcasm either;
That being said, although I think the LDB is a hell of a lot of fun, it's mainly for the photos and the mindless banter.
As far as it's use a a "guide", forget it, I believe it's there to say "this exists". There are places I never knew about which were 20 miles from my hometown.
I saw mention of King's Park Psychiatric on Long Island, and was thrilled.
So we woke up early , got in the vehicle, and drove there.
So to speak; even though we had offers for advice on directions /access points, we ignored it. We did a drive and find. And in this case we didn't find.
The hotels in the Fallsburg area are a prime example; we didn't take directions, we just went!
It forces you to learn; Between researching places locally I'm interested in and researching ldb locations, I've become quite a history buff.
Corny as it sounds, the LDB has done more for me that point the way to an old building, it's given me an even greater interest in history than I already had.
Ultimately, I don't need a street address; I just need to know it exists in the first place.
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