Community Motive 🌎🌍🌏Think Local Planet, Act Regionally!: Global Geocode Library Use Organizes U.S. State Wikipedia Pages Geographically -

The Global Geocodes are designed to work at subnational levels. Here, for the United States, the nation code 5140 has added to it a two digit decimal number. Like the global codes, codes are assigned using the directional path North to South, then East to West (NSEW). U.S. Census Bureau defined regions are the base, with Maine being 5140.01. See map below.

The library function here organizes Wikipedia pages geographically. The codes can be used as well for data aggregation by region and related analyses.

Geocode	Nation/State	Geocode Library Use Organizes State Wikipedia Pages Geographically within Census /Region	Census Region
5140.00	United States of America	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America
5140.01	Maine	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine	Northeast
5140.02	New Hampshire	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire	Northeast
5140.03	Vermont	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont	Northeast
5140.04	Massachusetts	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts	Northeast
5140.05	Rhode Island	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island	Northeast
5140.06	Connecticut	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut	Northeast
5140.07	New York	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York	Northeast
5140.08	New Jersey	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey	Northeast
5140.09	Pennsylvania	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania	Northeast
5140.10	Delaware	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware	South
5140.11	Maryland	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland	South
5140.12	District of Columbia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia	South
5140.13	Virginia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia	South
5140.14	West Virginia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia	South
5140.15	North Carolina	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina	South
5140.16	South Carolina	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina	South
5140.17	Georgia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia	South
5140.18	Florida	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida	South
5140.19	Kentucky	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky	South
5140.20	Tennessee	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee	South
5140.21	Alabama	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama	South
5140.22	Mississippi	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi	South
5140.23	Louisiana	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana	South
5140.24	Arkansas	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas	South
5140.24	Oklahoma	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma	South
5140.26	Texas	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas	South
5140.27	Michigan	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan	Midwest
5140.28	Ohio	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio	Midwest
5140.29	Indiana	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana	Midwest
5140.30	Illinois	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois	Midwest
5140.31	Wisconsin	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin	Midwest
5140.32	Minnesota	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota	Midwest
5140.33	North Dakota	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota	Midwest
5140.34	South Dakota	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota	Midwest
5140.35	Iowa	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa	Midwest
5140.36	Nebraska	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska	Midwest
5140.37	Missouri	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri	Midwest
5140.38	Kansas	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas	Midwest
5140.39	Montana	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana	West
5140.40	Wyoming	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming	West
5140.41	Idaho	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho	West
5140.42	Nevada	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada	West
5140.43	Utah	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah	West
5140.44	Colorado	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado	West
5140.45	New Mexico	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico	West
5140.46	Arizona	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona	West
5140.47	Alaska	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska	West
5140.48	Washington	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state)	West
5140.49	Oregon	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon	West
5140.50	California	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California	West
5140.51	Hawaii	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii	West

The jump from Texas to Michigan may seem severe, but an analyst can handle it.

Some information is in the "Geocode Introduction" sidebar. If you are interested in more information, send me an email for the current paper and related information. Tom.Christoffel (at) gmail.com

Prototype for Global Coding of Political Geographies Library and Data Management – Wikipedia Example

The system is based on a geocode scheme set up for earth that focuses on established political boundaries as a basis for regional grouping of nations, states and localities. It is decimal system based to take advantage of the sort criteria for numbers in computers. It utilized the Sector Group and Region codes of the United Nations and ISO. Geographic information system technology does not solve the problem, but its tools can be used with the geocodes.

The geocode system effectively organizes Wikipedia entries as a library management and the geocodes can be used for data aggregation. This has been developed under a Creative Commons license and would benefit from a global network implementation where local users cooperatively related subnational geographic regions and component political geography.

Examples are at the links which follow:

1. Global Geocode Library Use Organizes Wikipedia Pages Geographically

2. Global Geocode Library Use Organizes U.S. State Wikipedia Pages Geographically

3. Global Geocode Library Organizes U.S. Sub-state and Multi-state Region Wikipedia Pages Geographically

4. Why focus on COGs/Regional Councils in the U.S.? "the substate district is essentially an administrative tool of states"

Contact: Tom Christoffel

Community Motive – Three Thoughts by Tom Christoffel, FeRSA, 3/16/09-revised 9/29/09; 9/26/11

Based on my experience as a regional planner and agency director, 1973 -2008, and in recognition of emerging "regional communities," I developed three thoughts about community that relate to the challenge of working across-boundaries as greater or regional communities. The thoughts/theses apply for communities at the scale of bonding or bridging social capital as defined by Robert D. Putnam, which is alternately local or regional. (link below)

As of 2011, considering the global financial crisis brought about by pursuit of the "profit motive," it struck me that this has come to dominate modern life. This is a relatively new invention of civilization and wasn't a concern for most of the time that homo sapiens has been on the planet.

The three thoughts below that had emerged in my experience of working on regional cooperation now represent what I now posit as the "community motive." Concern about "profit" can emerge within an established community over time, but, to my mind the "profit motive" does not exist in the wild.

1) Community precedes cooperation.
2) Community is how life solves all problems.
3) Security is the primary purpose of community.

These three thoughts, theses if you will, are the basis of the "community motive." Following is some exposition about each one.

As I see it, security has always been the priority for humans since the plains of Africa. That's why communities first seek to establish defensible boundaries. After the basics are in place, security focus shifts to the social and economic. Boundaries work like the membrane in the osmosis experiment most of us have seen in a science class. The membrane is a filter that lets the good things pass through, but keeps unwanted things out. (Osmosis -YouTube - 45 sec.)

The evolved political boundaries of today have consequence. The rules change when you cross them. Though marked on the ground and fortified in some instances, they are conceptual, as pictured above, with Universe Man. The boundary divides the space between local, that within, and regional, everything outside, as labeled in the second panel. The third panel repeats the image within, to show, without graphic elegance, that the land on which Universe Man sits is regional at another scale, as determined by other boundaries, and another area that's local. A territory is both local and regional, depending upon the perspective.

Communities of communities, “regional communities” are greater communities organized to solve a problem, be it managing a watershed, strengthening an economic cluster or ensuring peer competition for school sports. Regional boundaries can be imposed for administrative purposes within states, but for these to be a basis for effective cooperation, a greater community sense is needed for that geography among the people. This is true for multi-state and multi-national regional communities as well. The leaders with such a vision can build a regional community by finding that which is already in place.

This is not to suggest that community is easy to build in order to solve problems. In a crisis, humans of any culture, belief or politics can quickly come together and self-organize to save themselves and others. It was the on-the- ground response to the 9/11 attacks that demonstrated to me the deep responsiveness of human community, as well as the fundamental importance of security. Community is how humans have always survived. This, I think, extends to all life forms.

The "community motive" comes into play when there is a problem to be solved. In a monetized civilization, the "profit motive" may be an incentive for some action, but most of the problems of life don't have a check at the end for their solution. They are things that must be done. Because this is the case, humanity has been able to perpetuate. ©

For more on Regional Community and Scale, see the Slideshare box below.

To learn about bridging and bonding social capital, read Chapter 1 of Bowling Alone: the collapse and revival of American community By Robert D. Putnam

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