{"id":41971,"date":"2026-08-08T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/what-would-make-this-video-game-location-dataset-more-useful\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:27:05","slug":"what-would-make-this-video-game-location-dataset-more-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/what-would-make-this-video-game-location-dataset-more-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would Make This Video-game Location Dataset More Useful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I\u2019m building a structured dataset of real-world locations represented in video games.<\/p>\n<p>The current dataset contains close to 3,000 records from more than 380 games. <\/p>\n<p>Two example records look like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>record_id,game_title,release_year,franchise,primary_genre,location_name,country_iso,latitude,longitude,location_type,setting_status,coordinate_method,verification_level<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>acw12_0001,Assassin&#8217;s Creed,2007.0,assassins_creed,Action Adventure,Jerusalem,IL,31.7683,35.2137,city,real,representative,verified<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>bra49_0006,2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil,2014.0,fifa_world_cup,Sports,Arena das Dunas,BR,-5.8267,-35.2125,stadium,real,exact,corroborated<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The two rows illustrate an important distinction: Arena das Dunas can be represented by an exact point, while Jerusalem is represented by a point that stands for a larger city.<\/p>\n<p>I would appreciate feedback from people who work with public datasets:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Should a public preview include source URLs and evidence, or is it reasonable to keep those in a separate research layer?<\/li>\n<li>Which additional information would make the records easier to validate or reuse?<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of analyses or applications would you personally build with this dataset?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The goal is to improve the data structure and documentation through feedback from people who might actually use it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your feedback \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Phaser-Duck\"> \/u\/Phaser-Duck <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1visdy0\/what_would_make_this_videogame_location_dataset\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1visdy0\/what_would_make_this_videogame_location_dataset\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41971 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41971' data-nonce='9de69db8d5' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41971 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41971 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m building a structured dataset of real-world locations represented in video games. The current dataset contains close&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}