colin

Administrative Division: Second-tier administrative divisions

2007-09-10T23:56:51.0007Z

Thanks jeff!

Administrative Division: Second-tier administrative divisions

2007-09-10T16:34:20.0007Z

Administrative division should be used for everything between country and city/town. Sorry for the confusion! I'll update the text.

Administrative Division: Population?

2007-09-10T16:33:02.0007Z

Hi Kirrily -- we added a population property to administrative division a little while ago. (Although this may change -- we're talking about creating a new type to hang statistical data off of, so that users won't have to query against country/division/city. Couldn't tell you when this will be ready, but it is in the works.)

Administrative Division: Second-tier administrative divisions

2007-09-09T13:31:41.0005Z

The description for this type says that this is for top-level divisions within countries. In Australia we have another level of administration below that. It goes Country (Australia), State (Victoria), and then Municipality (City of Yarra). I've been messing with an "Australian Muncipality" type and I made it include "Administrative Division" but I'm not sure if this is right, as municipalities don't have ISO 3166-2 codes, for example. Any thoughts would be most welcome.

K.

Administrative Division: Population?

2007-09-09T13:29:52.0007Z

Luke,

Sounds sensible to me. Adding my vote.

K.

u.s. hamlets

2007-08-27T22:02:49.0012Z

are they us city/town's or no?

i guess i'd say no. but i'm ok with calling a hamlet a plain old city/town, which we equate to the smallest administrative unit of a state (whether a commune in france, or a city or town in the U.S.)

I think hamlets (see Fishers Island, New York) might get coerced into city/town's by people creating /location/mailing_address'es but I think us_citytown is pretty specific and these hamlets are not that.

Currency Used: Historical currencies

2007-08-26T23:36:51.0012Z

"Currency used" currently doesn't differentiate between the currency currently used and historical currencies. Which means that e.g. in the Germany listing, you will find Euro, German mark and German gold mark -- but of course, you wouldn't get far with German gold mark today!

colin: You are a sack!

2007-08-23T00:45:53.0013Z

Only 8 pounds? I bet you can make a six pound sack!

Administrative Division: Population?

2007-07-11T00:10:10.0013Z

Should this type have "Population" as a Property? I notice "Country" and "City/Town" both do ... so for example, Australia and Adelaide can both have populations, but South Australia doesn't ...

Some More Type Properties

2007-06-25T05:28:23.0011Z

I was hoping we could get some more properties for the U.S. City's type. Things like Mayor, Founding, Area, Time Zone, Zip Codes, Density, and Elevation. These are just some basics that are currently included in Wikipedia (making it easy to add these to every city article on Freebase).