DallanQ/Places — Issue #8: Potential source for placenames
Author: trobbins
Created: 2012-02-22 22:20:30+00:00
State: open

This Google doc has been floating around for a while, but it's a crowdsourced city nickname list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApRiIDKMcWUMdG90a0RRYmFBd1VzU3RYS1pydkhwUVE

This data could be used either for ```Alternate Names``` or a new ```Nickname``` field. I can see the added value of searching by a nickname, ```"the garden city"``` and getting ```"Provo, Utah, Utah"``` back. Anyhow, I'd love your thoughts on this source even though it's definitely a folksonomy of sorts.