User talk:Thomcat

There was one in Tyler? Too bad I don't go to school near there anymore! --BenPop 00:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Goals

Having edited one quarter of our Three Graticule Tall state, I firmly intend to visit a geohash in each Graticule of our state - eventually. Going to be tough to catch those two coastal ones (Forks and the one south of it). Although the "Victoria" one contains a nub of Washington, I am going to call that one Canada and skip it for now.

Categories

I know only about as much as you do, but I've tried something out, and left a message on the category page where you asked your question. AshleyMorton 14:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Cape May graticule

I think it's closer to 99.5% water.  :-) Since Jan 1st, the geohash has been on land 3 times, and twice it was wetland. On the other hand, a lot of people in the area own boats, so close-to-shore spots are fair game for weekend meet-ups. --Jevanyn 15:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Oi!

Sorry I missed you at Cosmo's. One of these next times, though, for sure.--Nukewaste 02:14, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Good job on making the Active/Inactive graticule categories! I think it's awesome. Booberfish 05:31, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Categorization Scheme

I'm curious about the categorization scheme you are pushing. You categorize U.S. cities as "North America / State" and remove a categorization of "United States"

Following that scheme, I would think that the cities would be categorized under their respective state only, the state categorized under "United States" and "United States" categorized under "North America" to yield a heirarchy structure.

Might I suggest this, since I will be adding a number of places here in the near future and we seem to be butting into one another. --Sartakh 07:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea. The North America category currently has links to Canada, some U.S. states, and many cities, which doesn't sound helpful. I can do some of this if you agree it's worth doing. -- Jevanyn 17:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

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Actually, my suggestion is that each U.S. city be categorized with only it's appropriate state. Each state categorized as U.S., and U.S. categorized in North America. Categorizing the cities in both state and U.S. would clutter U.S. pretty bad - like North America is now.

According to this though, North America would have only U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Adding the U.S. states to North America would really fill it though. your thoughts?

Cities definitely need to be pulled out of North America though. I'll start on that.

If this thing grows considerably, this will become a major consideration. Best to nip it now.

I created a Pacific Ocean category and put Hawaii there also, but I think that Oceania would be more accurate. Do you agree? --Sartakh 16:43, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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Technically - I think - Australia, being a continent in it's own right, doesn't fit in with Oceania, though New Zealand probably does. That would apply to things like Hawaii, Marshall Islands, etc. A quick trip to the CIA fact book would be warranted I think. Bit of work now, though will save users a real headache on lookups in the future if this thing really grows - as long as folks stay with the heirarchy. It should get a life of it's own with time though.

I also think we will need a very top level "World"????, under which the various geographic areas would go. This would be useful for casual browsers as a starting point. Continents/general areas under that, then countries, then states as applicable.

--Sartakh 17:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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I was looking at Dothan, Alabama and this raises an interesting problem that could be an issue in the future. How to name graticules that cross borders. Within the U.S. this is not an issue other than that of potential confusion, but some neighboring countries that would share graticules would not appreciate cities being categorized as being in both countries. Turkey/Greece, Israel/Jordan come to mind right off the top of my head. Naming by the graticule coords is good and then doing redirects, but graticule coords is not very user friendly.

Ideas?

--Sartakh 19:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Is it possible to have major and minor subcategories? For U.S. cities, I think it makes sense for each graticule to be categorized under all states that it intersects. For example, Newark, New Jersey would be categorized under Category:New Jersey, Category:Pennsylvania and Category:New York, but it would be listed higher on the page for New Jersey, and lower on the page for the others. This would be helpful for someone near a state border who is in the other state's graticule. -- Jevanyn 17:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)