suggest:
locale=Chatenay-Malabry
city=Paris

Great stuff guys.

I'll take a look at all of these threads. One of the things that I will be putting in a future build(probably the next one) will be metropolitan areas of cities. That way all of the little places around London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, etc... will still be filterable by the larger city name.

Well I know I should defer to ssellers

but...

isn't it this place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2tenay-Malabry ?

Now maybe it is formally a city, by whatever definition, but for London at least YO was using the metropolitan area of London to cover "City" in the database e.g. shows in the City of Westminster, are nevertheless given London as the City

Following changes to be reflected in data version 7

Renamed city 'Chatenay-Malabry' to 'Châtenay-Malabry'

^^

So which show is in Westminster as opposed to London?

Some other's I posted elsewhere - do you want me to start a thread on each of these?

Marquee Club, Soho, City of Westminster
Playhouse Theatre, Strand, City of Westminster
Hornsey Wood Tavern, Finsbury Park, Haringey
Cook's Ferry Inn, Edmonton, Enfield
Maida Vale Studios, Maida Vale, City of Westminster
("BBC TV Studios" ) Lime Grove Studios, Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith

It looks like both Edmonton and Enfield are cities. Are you saying that the Cook's Ferry Inn is in the city of Enfield, but a district of Edmonton?

Sorry, I had to sleep

I should have put more detail in some of those because my list above is misleading.

Enfield, Haringey and Hammersmith are all boroughs, (Metropolitan) London Boroughs. So they're not cities in their own right.

In the "Venue, Locale, City" scheme, then your revisions are ok if you allow borough=city. If, not then, mark them as in London, and you then have a choice for locale, in each case.

Sorry for the confusion YO!

It's just that it's not always possible to be consistent i.e. sometimes a district name would mean more to most people than the borough name and vice-versa.

I'm sure it's the same the world-over

The boroughs above are in London Metropolitan area. London City is literally a square mile in area - tiny. City of Westminster isn't large either, and in most people's mind is associated with Parliament and politics.

To be a little more helpful (I hope!):

For the Marquee, most folk would just think "London"; I think "Soho, London" would do.

For Playhouse Theatre, most people would probably think "West End (London)" - but the West End is not even a formal district, let alone Borough! "Strand (London)" should do.

"Finsbury Park" is reasonably well-known I think; "Finsbury Park, London" should do.

Enfield is undoubtedly better known than Edmonton (even most UK folk that had heard of a place called Edmonton would think of Canada!). So I'd suggest "Enfield, London".

I'd suggest "Maida Vale, London".

Because the venue is the very well-known BBC TV studios, then "Shepherd's Bush, London" is best. Any other venue, I'd have suggested "Hammersmith, London" probably.

How else can I help?

I'll look through the latest release again, and see if anything could be better described - but accurracy and common understanding are not the same! And being limited to "locale, city" is tough.

sorry for delay

All that would work, but I guess it's the same everywhere - not just England, right?

Regarding City - not every show was in a city, Guildford springs to mind as one case in England.

With the current "venue, locale, city" there's honestly very little that needs changing in the db: it's more a case of adding locale names. I think we could make that work - I'll try to help whichever way