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  • From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?
  • Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 08:22:47 -1000 (HST)

Aloha,

> Looking for some input here in terms of how we want to define
> locales. Something like Continent/Nation/State/City, Lat/Long, a
> thorough climate description, or a combination of all of these?

I favor a bioregional approach in general.
That is, defining location by a combination of topographical and
biological descriptions.
Continent, bioregion, sub-region, city/town/village(s) where relevant.

We have an opportunity here to re-seed a bioregionally based understanding
of place and subvert the nation-state pathology that currently dominates.

For that reason I would prefer *not* using nation and state designations
and boundaries as primary location indicators. In the DB, sure, but not
as primary location indicators. Use bioregional location specifiers as
primary information for locales.

If we do some eventual integration with GIS stuff, and even without that,
Lat/Long would be good to have, since it's an internationally applied way
of defining locations. Eurocentric to be sure, but not in such
destructive ways as the nation-state stuff.



John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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