[Data-modeling] Place of burial

[Jeff Prucher]

We've thus far only uploaded IDs for locations that were already in Freebase
or Wikipedia, and that we could reconcile.  We haven't uploaded the whole
kit and kaboodle by a long shot, and I don't know when we'll get to it.  I
believe that the next load will be populated places (which probably excludes
cemeteries, unless the undead-American lobby intervenes).

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Tom Morris
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:08 AM
> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Place of burial
> 
> I was just looking at types related to cemeteries the other 
> day and was surprised to find that they appear to be entirely 
> absent from Freebase.  Both GNIS and Geonames include a 
> feature class called cemetery.  Since Location has properties 
> for both GNIS id and GeoNet id, I kind of assumed that it 
> contained all the locations that they contain.  Were only 
> certain feature classes imported?  Can the others be added?
> 
> Tom
> 
> p.s. Faye's year old request and my followup of a few days 
> ago can be found here 
> http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/location#/guid/9202a8c
> 04000641f8000000004f27f6d
> 
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Kirrily Robert 
> <kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:
> > In a sort of offshoot of the "place of worship" discussion, 
> I'd like 
> > to propose a "place of burial" type.
> >
> > Currently the deceased person type has "place of burial" 
> expecting a 
> > simple location.  I would like to change this expected type 
> to "burial 
> > place", which would include "location".
> >
> > That way when you looked at eg. Westminster Abbey, you could see 
> > "People buried here".
> >
> > I'm not sure what we'd do with "place of cremation".  Do people 
> > actually care about the place of cremation, or is the place 
> where the 
> > ashes are interred that people care about?  It seems like an odd 
> > property to me.
> >
> > K.
> >
> > --
> > Kirrily Robert
> > Freebase Community Director
> > kirrily at metaweb.com
> > http://freebase.com/
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