Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Map of Cohousing Communities

[Robert Heinich (robert]

Fred,

>>> is there an archive of community listing that have been removed from the
database for
>>> historical / research purposes?

I checked the Internet Wayback Machine, http://www.archive.org/web/web.php ,
on the URL http://www.cohousing.org/directory but it only does back to 2008.

-Robert Heinich
 Eno Commons Cohousing
 Durham, NC
 http://www.enocommons.org
 where the weather is getting cool enough for me to ride my bicycle to work



On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> 
wrote:

>
> Catya wrote (about why almost all states have with green pins) :
>
> > My assumption is that this is a holdover from the ic.org code, and
> > it's showing a flag for any state that has any communities.
>
> That is the pins indicate states that have any kind on intentional
> community listed with IC.org.  Thank you for that explanation.
> http://directory.ic.org/iclist/geo.php does not have any communies
> listed for ND and WY which tends to support your explanation.
>
> In the cohousing directory 26 of the lower 48 states are listed in
> the database as having cohousing communities.  It's a good idea to
> have the green pins on a map of the whole lower 48 US states on the
> screen to give an overview of the distribution.
>
> If one could view the red pins at that scale (many of which would over
> lap) would be almost as good.  That may not allow as convenient
> zooming in. It may be that Google does not reasonably support that
> many pins on the display at one time; it many take too long to
> display.
>
> The red pins at that scale would give a sense of how many communities
> various region has. Ideally the green pins would have the number of
> communities in that state in a custom green pin.
>
> I checked the red pins for Colorado.  All 16 Colorado entries in the
> database were on pins but not all commnunities have their own pin.
> Curiously 3 are on one pin. The pin under highway route 7 NW of
> Boulder has "Washington Village, Silver Sage Village and Lyons Valley
> Village" (when you "hover" over the pin). Lyons is ways north of
> Boulder (for some reason the map does not have the usual scale
> displayed.)
>
> Note: How I got to view this.
> After clicking the green Colorado pin, I clicked on the "+"
> to zoom in 5 times after dragging Boulder to the center of the map
> between each click.  This gives a scale that one can see each red pin
> individually around Boulder.
>
> I think the automated map is the way to go, hopefully improving or
> eliminating the green pins. This would require a modification to the
> code that generates the map.  Do we need a volunteer for that?.  Till
> that can be done the description of the green pins should be re-worded
> to explain the intent / descrepancy.
>
> Wiki like collaborative effort is best used to update the database.
> Does the current system for authorizing an editor for a community
> allow for there being a regional editor for those commnunities that
> do not have an individual editor?
>
> The Cohousing Directory, on the Cohousing Website, is a sub-set of the
> Intentional Community Directory maintained through the ICDC as a
> self-serve online database.  In the
> "Instructions for Adding or Editing your Community Listing"
> at http://directory.ic.org/neweditors.php#find
> the assumption seems to be made that the editor is a resident
> of the community in question but I note that there are exceptions and
> there can be more than one editor for a given community.
> Maybe a system of regional editors could be developed and encouraged
> to update "orphaned" community listings.
>
> Another question that occurs to me is... is there an archive of
> community listing that have been removed from the database for
> historical / research purposes?
>
> Fred
>
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