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- From: Plants For A Future <webmaster@pfaf.org>
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- Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:25:11 +0100 (BST)
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Chad Knepp wrote:
> 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?
>
>
There is some advantage of using country codes UK, US, FR, ...
definatly state/region (we dont have states here onlu counties).
Probably worth defining a locale class, which could be sub classed later
if there is a need to refine the locale at a later date.
Might also be useful to include language codes en-uk for UK english,
etc.
Can be quite a tricky job getting the locale right, I spent ages
working in decoding the text field ken used for the native range.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/D_search.html#AREA
is some of the regions I used. I've a big text file with key words used
to find matching countries. Very far from perfect though.
Rich
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Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?
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Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?,
Chad Knepp, 09/11/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/11/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?,
Bear K, 09/11/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/11/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?,
Lee Flier, 09/11/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/12/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/11/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/11/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?,
Plants For A Future, 09/12/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/12/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?, Plants For A Future, 09/12/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?, Stephanie Gerson, 09/14/2004
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Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?,
Chad Knepp, 09/11/2004
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