On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:28:44 -0500, zMan <[email protected]> wrote:
>Right...how many city airports are actually in that city? Is LAX "in" >LA? is Flushing (JFK) "in" NYC? (It is in a borough) These kinds of distinctions even trip up people. First of all, New York City is comprised of the "Five Boroughs," so, yes JFK is "in" New York City. Second, JFK is in Jamaica (Queens), not Flushing. LGA is in Flushing (also "in" New York City). Manhattan is merely one of the boroughs, along with Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. Each of the boroughs also maps to a county, named respectively, Manhattan, Kings, Queens, Bronx, and Richmond. None of this really matters to IBM-MAIN, I point it out to show how standard taxonomies can fail (state > county > city) and would have to be accounted for by exceptions within an algorithm. Scott Fagen Chief Architect CA Mainframe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
