Melody Kramer




Lets Categorize Place In Every Which Way

09 Jun 2015




Previous version:

world

continent

country

state

county

city

borough

neighborhood

block

house

room

Your additions:

Personal/community localities

School

office

church

club

sports team

school sports league

school district

news relating to alma maters, former homes, homes of relatives, favorite vacation spots. _(Mel note: We did cover ex-pat news in a previous newsletter. i.e. news from places that I care about, which I think all of these describe.)

Other functional communities: (and some reading material)

book clubs

support groups

podcast listeners

professional groups

customers

Friends separated by distance

Lovers of bacon

Cat people

Civil rights activists

Fans of really bad prog rock

Guitarists

Lego builders

Swifties

Dr Who fans

online communities

etc forever

More places: (I guess this makes me think differently about local news, eh?)

island? - like Hawaii, Alaska vs. continental US

hemisphere

street

floor of building / unit of building

region (like Midwest)

tenant or apartment building

Space (and Space Weather) / University / Galaxy /

Astronomic (coronal mass ejections, meteors, solar eclipse zones)

Your Own Body / Your Uterus

Village / hamlet / metropolitan area

Geologic (areas of seismicity, water tables)

news algorithmically chosen for each individual in that room / “there are multiple places in a room where you can be, for example sitting at your desk is very different from being in your bed.”

Park

Playground

Dog Park

Chair

Campus (this can be local and not local) / this can be corporate and university-oriented

Township (very popular here in Ohio, and they don’t align with counties)

Corporate limits

“Metro area”

Voting districts

Time zones (at least in this country, this very relevant/important in rural areas which are also some of the poorest areas. Almost all time zone lines zigzag through in the middle of the country)

Regional cellular companies (again, predominantly in rural areas)

Delivery areas: in NYC, a span of blocks and in suburbs/small towns, a span of miles.

Zip codes and by extension, postal routes

Bike rentals

Ferries

Mom and pop shops

Watersheds

Microregion

Street

Territory

Condominium association

Homeowners association

Property lot

School district

Voting district

Congressional district.

Federal court circuit.

Census districts: http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/

Cachement area/basin

Municipal transit area

MSA (metropolitan statistical area)

State house district

State senate district

Police district

City council district

ANC (for DC)

Area Code

G8

g7

Census tract

Block group

Gated community

Commerical cooridor

Parrish

Time: (We did cover time in a previous newsletter.)

Chronologic (date lines for celebrating new year)

past

present

futurish

future

Eons ago

Millenia ago

Centuries ago

Decades ago

Years ago

Months ago

Weeks ago

Days ago

Yesterday

Today

Hours ago

Minutes ago

Seconds ago

Right now

Seconds from now

Minutes from now

Hours from now

Tomorrow

Days from now

Weeks from now

Months from now

Years from now

Decades from now

Centuries from now

Millenia from now

Eons from now

Not sure where to place these:

GPS

Geopolitic (historic and current: the relationship between former colonies/colonizers affects their news distribution; areas with high immigrant populations report different kinds of news, eg I’m currently in Germany, where news about the Turkish elections broke several hours before I received a NYT alert about it)

Languages

Social Feed

Other thoughts:

You might browse the Getty Geographical thesaurus for more ideas: Also, you might narrow even further to “corner” or “surface” and then to “body” since every body (HUR HUR) is unique.

Thank you to Evan, Machiko Yasuda, Tod Robbins, Marilyn Geewax, Paulus Van Horn, Abby Keel, Meg Cramer, Andria Krewson, JKroll, John Sepulvado, Dorothy Levitt, Gabe Isman, Jim Person, DBurt, Christine Eriksen, Ceddacosco, Andrew Losowsky, Anders, Jeffrey Patkinson, Angela Combest, Martha Garvey, Zach Rosen, Maayan Plaut, Kale Davis, Michelle Holshue, Ben Thomas Paine, Kitty Hannah, Renee P. T., Brian Greenberg, Heidi59, Stephanie Pottinger, Andrew Maier, Shaproo, Betsy O’Donovan, Melissa Byrne, Laura Isensee and Amanda McLoughlin for their contributions.

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