[Data-modeling] Proposed cleaning of US location properties/type

Bryan Cheung bryan.cheung at metaweb.com
Tue Apr 29 17:51:55 UTC 2008


There are some properties on US location types that have been hidden  
for a while, and I'd like like to clean them up.  The properties are:

http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/location/us_state
/location/us_state/cities
/location/us_state/counties

http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/location/us_county
/location/us_county/state
/location/us_county/cities

The more general location containment will be updated with any data  
that currently may be in these properties; the links would be moved  
to /location/location/contains and /location/location/containedby (/ 
location/location is an included type).  These properties will then be  
deleted.

Additionally, there is a /location/us_citytown type that has been  
replaced by a more general /location/citytown.  The link connected to / 
location/us_citytown/state would be moved to /location/location/ 
containedby and the property and type will be deleted.

http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/location/us_citytown

This will require some ECTs to be updated:
The ECT of /location/us_county/county_seat will be updated to / 
location/citytown.

The ECT of /location/us_state/capital will be updated to /location/ 
citytown.  I'd also like to mark this property as unique; last time I  
checked, US states couldn't have more than one capital city.

Any objection or comments to this?

Bryan



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