[mb-users] Is their an artist property for an artists place of birth ?

[Age Bosma]

Paul Taylor wrote:
> Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>> I wouldn't be very supportive of adding this as it would force us to
>> take stand on some territorial conflicts. You might say that we
>> already do this with release countries, but I do think they should be
>> called release region or similar as they include non-countries such as
>> Europe and Hong Kong. I don't want to get into specific debates now,
>> just pointing out that there are already issues with our
>> country-divisions.
>>   
> I can see this how might be an issue, but not such an issue that it 
> should prevents the  improvement of the MB database. To get round the 
> territiorial  issue (and provide non-ambiguous locations) the lcation 
> could be expressed as a latitude and longitude. If this information was 
> available I thought it would be quite interesting to map concentrations 
> of musical activity, perhaps mapping the results on something like 
> Google Maps.
> 

You might want to share you ideas and opinions here: 
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/LocationProposal

;-)

Age