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Please touch base with either me or Greg so that we can provide you some pointers. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:59, 5 February 2007 (PST)
Please touch base with either me or Greg so that we can provide you some pointers. [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 08:59, 5 February 2007 (PST)
==Japan==
Hi Garrett, Japan looks very interesting. Please take a look at how we created community-regional-state-national roll-ups for the US - specifically [[Directory:California]] - before you get a little deeper.
I'd like to standardize on tag nomenclature; for example, instead of ''nation located in'', we already have '''located in'''. (If all countries use the same convention, than we can perform global ASK queries for the world.) We can then cross reference this with appropriate '''categories'''. (ASK queries work best when they combine attributes, categories & relations.) Speaking of attributes, please copy state_code to prefecture_code while you're at it.
If you drill down into [[Directory:California]] counties, cities & communities, you'll see how we used different roll-up tags. Please use existing tags, or if you need to name something specific, please follow the roll-up convention. When you done with Hokkaidō & Japan, it should look almost identical to the US & California, except for cases where there are naming differences. The add'l attributes you've created for area, density, etc are fine - we may even add them to the US.
One last note - you can count the number of districts & municipalities via an ASK query, so if you entered them all, you wouldn't have to hard code a result. On second thought, perhaps it might be better to hard code at this time (LOL).
Again, drop me a line if you have any questions. It's critical that we have a standardized approach, otherwise ASK queries will be stranded within counties (ie dependent on different naming conventions). [[User:Snerfling|Snerfling]] 17:10, 6 February 2007 (PST)