JC and I met today, and she showed me some of the GIS work. We talked about some principles for file/folder naming conventions and identifiers, and she's going to work these out in detail and circulate them so that when we eventually bring all the GIS databases together they'll make sense, and will mesh with our other data.

By the middle of next week, we hope to have the shared filespace set up so you can store your data centrally where it will be backed up. For that, I need UVic netlink ids from the cluster; still waiting for those.

JC and I agreed on a set of identifiers for the streets, so that we don't have to worry about "Street" versus "St." and upper/lowercasing etc.:

main
gore
dunlevy
jackson
princess
easthastings
eastcordova
powell
alexander
railway

We noted that the GIS folks are including Pender, whereas we haven't so far, because it doesn't appear on the Nihonmachi map we have, so I'm checking with JS-R about that. We also agreed that since there are some buildings with entrances on the alleys, which are unnamed, we should also have a convention for identifying the alleys; this is based on the initial letters of the streets between which they run, and their position E/W or N/S on the 1941 plan, so we have:

Running N/S:

alley_mg1 (between Main & alley_ap1, from Alexander to Powell)

alley_mg2 (between Main & alley_pc1, from Powell to East Cordova)

alley_mg3 (between Main & alley_ch1, from East Cordova to East Hastings) 

alley_jp1 (between Jackson & Princess, from Railway to Alexander)

Running W/E:

alley_ra4 (between Railway & Alexander, from alley_jp1 to Princess)

alley_ap1 (between Alexander & Powell, from alley_mg1 to Gore)

alley_ap2 (between Alexander & Powell, from Gore to Dunlevy)

alley_ap3 (between Alexander & Powell, from Dunlevy to Jackson)

alley_ap4 (between Alexander & Powell, from Jackson to Princess)

alley_pc1 (between Powell & East Cordova, from alley_mg2 to Gore)

alley_pc2 (between Powell & East Cordova, from Gore to Dunlevy)

[no alley_pc3: park intervenes]

alley_pc4 (between Powell & East Cordova, from Jackson to Princess)

alley_ch1 (between East Cordova & East Hastings, from alley_mg3 to Gore)

alley_ch2 (between East Cordova & East Hastings, from Gore to Dunlevy)

alley_ch3 (between East Cordova & East Hastings, from Dunlevy to Jackson)

alley_ch4 (between East Cordova & East Hastings, from Jackson to Princess)