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Comments on Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?
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Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?
I'm looking for a very long and sufficiently detailed list of every possible type of facility that exists in the world today, or perhaps is likely to exist in the future. For example, the list would include "cinema", different kinds of cinemas, various "restaurant" types, "apartment"s and a rough set of those, "park", "ice cream factory", "stock trading company offices", "video game studio", "bank desk", "computer server farm", "llama wool farm", "aquarium", "public greenhouse", "solar power plant", "hydro-electric river plant", "hydro-power-magazine plant", etc.
I have a project of mine in which I am creating city. But whether it would be a game, novel, physical model, 3D city model, or a movie, isn't important. For this, it would be very useful to have such a list of all sorts of facilities I'd need to put in my city.
Is this something that even belongs on Codidact? If it does, what is the best way to collect and present the contents of the list? A question may be discoverable, but having many different answers seems unproductive. Limiting the question to a single answer could work. Would an article be appropriate? Is content added by suggesting edits? How do we quality-assure it? Do we require sources for everything? How do we maintain a source list? Again, is this appropriate for Codidact, or am I better off looking for a more traditional wiki for it? Maybe Wikipedia already has such a list?
This can really be of use outside of just "world-building", though. It's more or less similar to asking "what are the different kinds of facilities that exist in the world today?"
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I do not think this list belongs on Codidact. I am not opposed to asking on Codidact if such a list exists, though.
Sam Carter suggested looking at OpenStreetMap, a suggestion I endorse. You could look at their wiki for tags like building=*, man_made=*, and so on. For a tighter list of interesting things which may occupy those buildings, I suggest looking at the Name Suggestion Index, which is associated with OSM.
If you're extremely meticulous, you can investigate the preset data for OSM's online editor.
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