[freeciv-data] Re: Cities in rulesets

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

scripsit Cameron Morland:
> 
> La 2002-04-27, Thanasis Kinias skribis:

> > What's the protocol for suggesting modifications to a ruleset?
> >
> > I've reworked my greek.ruleset to follow UN recommendations for the
> > transliteration of Greek placenames, added a few cities (including my
> > family's home village ;), and sorted out some by 'coastal_cities' and
> > 'river_cities'.
> 
> The original intent of the terrain specific stuff was not to label cities
> that are actually coastal (or whatever), but ones for which the
> nomenclature indicates that they should be. For example, Cambridge in the
> UK is named after a bridge on the river Cam, but Cambridge in Canada is
> just named after the city in the UK. Both should be river_cities. A
> counter example: St. John is coastal, but there is nothing about its name
> to suggest that.
> 
> So, for example, you might mark as "river" a Greek city with some form of
> "potamos" in its name (apologies for my bad Greek, if it's wrong).

OK, I can understand that.

Of course, that doesn't help us with, e.g., Vladivostok (must be in the
east to make sense).

Anyway, here's another diff, then, with only Olymbia segregated as
`mountains'.  Two other changes:  I've added accent marks (ISO 8859-1)
and I've sorted using the age-size script from freeciv.org's Web site.

Note that I've also added several cities which aren't part of modern
Greece, but were important Greek cities historically (Konstandinoúpolis
in Turkey, Alexandreía in Egypt).

Question:  I notice now that on freeciv-dev they've got a new way of
handling `natural city names', which seems to go the direction I was
going (e.g., Sankt Peterburg would be `river, swamp, coastal').  How
does that affect the .ruleset files?

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul



-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --

--- greek.ruleset.20020427      Sat Apr 27 09:00:59 2002
+++ greek.ruleset       Sun Apr 28 08:58:58 2002
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Greek")
 plural=_("?plural:Greeks")
-leader="Alexander", "Perikles", "Leonidas"
+leader="Alexandros", "Periklis", "Leonidas"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.greece"
 flag_alt = "-"
@@ -22,20 +22,19 @@
 government="Republic"
 
 cities =
-  "Athenae", "Sparta", "Thebae", "Corinthus", "Byzantium",
-  "Miletus", "Ephesus", "Piraeus", "Argos", "Megalopolis",
-  "Megara", "Eleusis", "Chalcis", "Eretria", "Thessalonica",
-  "Pella", "Edessa", "Dodona", "Nikopolis", "Naupactus",
-  "Patrae", "Pylos", "Mantinea", "Tegea",
-  "Nauplion", "Mycenae", "Nemea", "Epidauros", "Aulis",
-  "Orchomenos", "Marathon", "Delphi", "Thermopylae", "Phaleron",
-  "Nicaea", "Heraclea", "Potidaea", "Stagira", "Olynthus",
-  "Colophon", "Phocaea", "Amphissa", "Elateia", "Hyampolis",
-  "Atalante", "Oropos", "Lebadeia", "Larissa", "Iolkus",
-  "Amphiclaea", "Mesembria", "Cyzicus", "Halicarnassus", "Pergamos",
-  "Pydna", "Philadelphea", "Therme", "Amphipolis", "Corcyra",
-  "Ithaca", "Thera", "Delos", "Panormos", "Ortygia",
-  "Melos", "Lykosoura", "Amyclae", "Clazomenae", "Kynos Kephalae"
+  "Athínai", "Smýrni", "Konstandinoúpolis", "Pánormos", "Katáneia",
+  "Alexandreía", "Thessaloníki", "Zanklí", "Nikomídeia", "Táras", "Trapezoús",
+  "Syrakoúsai", "Chaniá", "Gíla", "Pátrai", "Kórinthos", "Akragás", "Knóssos",
+  "Kérkyra", "Lárisa", "Mitylíni", "Chíos", "Sínopi", "Ródos", "Adrianoúpolis",
+  "Vólos", "Neápolis", "Chalkís", "Amvrakeía", "Sérrai", "Kateríni", "Tríkala",
+  "Lamía", "Agrínion", "Alexandroúpolis", "Xánthi", "Véroia", "Dráma",
+  "Komotiní", "Troía", "Nikaía", "Kozáni", "Kardítsa", "Sámos", "Pírgos",
+  "Trípolis", "Réthymnon", "Kastoría", "Édessa", "Livádia", "Ioánnina",
+  "Flórina", "Préveza", "Náfplion", "Kilkís", "Iráklion", "Áyios Nikólaos",
+  "Zákinthos", "Igoumenítsa", "Mesolóngion", "Ámfissa", "Grevená",
+  "Argostólion", "Karpenísi", "Lefkás", "Éfesos", "Mílitos", "Klazómenai",
+  "Políyiros", "Kýmai", "Segesta", "Selinós", "Kalámai", "Ermoúpolis"
 
 mountains_cities =
-  "Olympia"
+  "Olymbía"
+