Comments on: Mapping football teams with Parallax

By: Ned

Ned — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:25:53 +0000

There. Fixed it. Got to love open curation of metadata.

I won’t bother to re-shoot my photo above, but Britannia Stadium (http://www.freebase.com/view/en/britannia_stadium) is no longer Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film.

By: Ned

Ned — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:16:01 +0000

Good point. The information for Parallax comes from Freebase, which is downstream of Wikipedia. The Stoke City wikipedia page knows about the Premier League status, as you would expect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke_City_F.C.), but the Freebase article doesn’t have the necessary arena/stadium metadata in place yet (http://www.freebase.com/view/en/stoke_city_fc). Manchester United, on the other hand, has the right metadata: {arena/stadium = Old Trafford} (http://www.freebase.com/view/en/manchester_united_fc).

By: JMike

JMike — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:23:45 +0000

I think your Premier League information is old – I didn’t see Britannia Stadium (in Stoke-on-Trent), home of Stoke City FC.
This is their first season back in the Premier League in quite a while so you were probably just looking at least year’s Premier League list.

By: JMike

JMike — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:15:38 +0000

The best part of that Monty Python skit (”The Hammers. The Hammes are the nickname of what English football team. The Hammers.”) is the intonation. Even my English friend Ryan (who is generally fed up with MP and references thereto) enjoys the intonation of that skit and the “Novel Writing from Dorset” skit (”…it looks as though he’s going for the sentence!”)

By: Ned

Ned — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:39 +0000

For those of you just tuning in: http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/History/Postings/2003/11/46668.htm

(http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/commquiz.htm)

The “Hammers”? Anyone?

By: Mike O

Mike O — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:04:17 +0000

1987

Let’s just get it out of the way right now.