Daniel Spils
Seattle

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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.

Comments:

Mary Hawkins
New York City

Data Janitors...

I probably hit “Won’t Fix” on those.

If you look over on Data Janitors, there’s a discussion about sorting cities into counties, and we decided [and The Robots agreed] that it was hard for outsiders—tourists, not-quite locals—to find cities when they were sorted into counties or parishes, so we’re not going to let those through. You’re in Texas—do you know what county Little Rock, AR is in? What about Dallas or Atlanta? We aren’t undoing the ones that are already sorted, but the helpers are not supposed to approve problem reports that sort cities into counties.

If you disagree with someone’s decision on your problem report—we don’t know everything about places, and sometimes wikipedia and google are wrong—you can always re-submit it, explain why you really want this one and ask why it was ignored. Make sure that it’s not still sitting in the problems queue or the “to go” queue, but that way you might get a different helper or at least an explanation. I try to tell people why I rejected them, but I don’t always have time, and I imagine it’s the same for everyone else—we’re all either volunteers or robots, and I sneak over to the problems page when I have a moment…

Emily
Houston

Ah! Last I heard, there was a big push to put cities in the correct counties/parishes. I didn’t know that had changed.

I joined Data Janitors so I can stay more in the loop. Thanks so much! :]

PS: All of you “fixers” are doing an AMAZING job by the way.

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Emily
Houston

This way to Data Janitors...

http://www.43places.com/groups/view/20

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