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News: These are YOUR places — 1 year ago

If you’re new to 43 Places you may not realize that all the places on this website have been added by users. Once upon a time, all we had were country names and a few major cities. 43 Places is a community effort where users are actively filling up the site with their favorite spots and the places they want to visit.

Along these lines all of us users can also correct and enhance data on 43 Places via the Report A Problem (RAP) tool. The RAP tool has been around for a short while, but users have already reported and closed over 14,000 problems.

What can you do with the RAP tool?

merge duplicate places
move a place in the heirarchy
correct a place name or mispelling
add an AKA (also known as) name to a place – NEW!
correct bad photos of a place (by correcting flickr tags)
report an “other” problem

The RAP tool is pretty slick—it allows you to search and correct place data on the spot.

How do you report a problem?
To report a problem click on the Report a problem link located at the bottom of every place page under “Help improve this page”.

Thanks for all the places you’ve added to date and thanks for keeping all the places you care about in good order.

Sep 26, 2006, 12:29PM PDT 29 cheers

Comments:

Christopher
Peterborough

Yes and yes, but Daniel is the one to talk to ask about that.

Oct 01, 2006, 10:07PM PDT | Parent | Respond to this 1 cheer

Daniel Spils
Seattle

Hi StacieAnne & Christopher:

Just got my laptop back from the repair shop today so I’m playing ketchup.

We’re having a little issue with problems “failing” due to stale object errors which is a fancy way of saying Todd’s got to figure that out before it all works seamlessly.

Actually, 4 “reported” problems is your point system. The approvers (I’m one) get points for “resolving”. So, you’re being correctly rewarded at this point for your much-appreciated activity. But I see what you mean—the wording is not exactly clear. I’ll talk with Todd about making the language clearer.

In summary, we’ll get the tool fixed so there aren’t so many failed tickets. That’s a high priority for us. Also, you’ve got 4 points! (we’ll work on making that make more sense).

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Oct 22, 2006, 08:27PM PDT

Mary Hawkins
New York City

Helpers

I got approval power when Josh got tired of hitting “approve” when I was sorting places in New York City into neighborhoods. I don’t quite know how other people got it, but I imagine that they were doing a lot of work to the site and one of the robots noticed. We actually have a handful of people who have approval power, but we don’t have enough people who know about the down-and-dirty of different cites… Personally, I’d rather people spend time talking about the places that they’ve been and built out their own neighborhood. We don’t need more approvers, we need more people to go through the site and find the errors and add entries about cool restaurants and local sites.

Try the group the Data Janitors and get involved over there. That’s where we talk about the structure of the site.

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Jan 16, 2007, 05:31PM PST

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News: These are YOUR places — 1 year ago

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