theCrag/website — Issue #452: sub-national regional boundaries
Author: MelwinQ
Created: 2012-01-21 14:46:29+00:00
State: open

We discussed this via E-Mail. For the sake of completeness and because I want to add something, I'll post this here:

> Apart from that special case, I wonder if this is a general issue to be
> considered: Should top-level regions (always) match with subnational
> administrative units (ie federal states)? This is common in some other
> route databases (e.g. www.escuelasdeescalada.com) and makes sense as it
> keeps the number of top-level regions to a reasonable minimum. The
> assignment of crags will mostly be unambiguous.
> On the other hand, these administrative regions may be less informative to
> the non-native as compared to physiogeographic regions (e.g. "Pyrenees") or
> major cities (e.g. "Cologne", as it is currently done in thecrag's
> Germany). Furthermore, mountain ranges (and thus crags) may straddle
> boundaries, requiring a node to belong to more than one parent (although
> this seems to be possible with your design, if I understood you right).
>
Campbell: Yes that's right

> I think that the strict "administrative scheme" makes most sense to those
> with local knowledge. People who lack this, will have to find a crag via
> the map view anyway, so I'd advocate the "administrative scheme" as a
> recommendation for all top-level nodes.

Campbell:
Food for thought. I definitely think that sub-national regions, if
required, should be comprehensive and non-overlapping. Maybe there's a bit
of an issue with how much climbing there is in a country and whether it's
spread evenly across all administrative divisions? Simon and Brendan what
do you think? (Melvin it might be a while before Simon/Brendan chip in-
Brendan's pretty much out of contact for January, Simon's busy with a chess
competition for the next couple of weeks- long story ;-))

Things like the maps, 'Classic Crags' (at top of LH nav) and alternate
names can all help non-locals too...

Simon or Brendan replied (sorry, lost that mail, trying to remember):
Things should be decided for each case individually.
Membership in multiple parental node is possible, but some technical issues need to be solved first.