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News: These are YOUR places — 2 years 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 26 cheers

Comments:

Daniel Spils
Seattle

Casuarina?

Hey Kaz—I just dug into this one. We’ve been hacking through a big backlog of problems as Todd’s been getting the tool working (which is great). I’m not sure why this one was wontfix’d.

Is Casuarina a suburb as in a separate city or town? Or is it actually part of Darwin. If the former, we can leave it under Northern Territory. If the latter, I can re-open the problem and get it moved lickety-split. I couldn’t find anything in wikipedia so I’ll rely on your local knowledge. Thanks!

Nov 30, 2006, 09:55AM PST | Parent | Respond to this

Kaz
University Of Southern Queensland

Casuarina

There might be a bit of a cultural difference here. Australians would never use the word “suburb” to refer to a city or town. A suburb would only ever be a relatively small section of a larger city or town. Maybe it’s different in the US?

But yeah, Casuarina is just a part of the city of Darwin like any other suburb there. Casurina gets more of a mention than other suburbs because it’s a northern suburb (has a beach), and because there is a shopping centre there.

I know the NT very well, and have been to Casuarina a lot… and it really should be listed under Darwin. There is one place listed under Darwin, however, that I am also going to report, and may cause some debate. Palmerston is not a suburb of Darwin, it really is a separate city. They do almost run onto each other though as both have expanded that far. But Palmerston is still a separete city and has it’s own city council.

Nov 30, 2006, 05:31PM PST | Respond to this

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Casuarina?

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