Splitting up more countries into regions

Originally posted by Fin

Originally posted by Travlr

Originally posted by Fin
it’s helpful that it’s split.

that’s the key right there, totally agree. speaking as someone who just built two whole beer adventures around the English counties

You are a legend Gene. Well done Re seeking out places and the English counties, love reading your reviews and was so pleased you loved The Grove, if that place were in a bigger city and more people knew about it. It would probably be top place in the UK and in the Top Ten worldwide

I agree with you when things are split it offers you little challenges. Btw talking of which I have just recently reclaimed my Top 5 rater of Belgian places from you, I was there for a while but I think you knocked me out, I’m back now so over to you Gene to turf me back out :-)

Originally posted by Cunningham
If you want a really lot of new regions: Go Norway

Originally posted by Hamirubi
Great. I’m very excited to hear that.
This is the list of premium members - not always admins, though! - willing to take a part of the work (if I am any good at reading between the lines) and having the expertise. They at least said that a splitting up of their/that country "can be done" or "it wouldn’t take very long".

Belgium = tderoeck or solidfunk
http://www.ratebeer.com/sendmessage/101220/ or http://www.ratebeer.com/sendmessage/128160/

Denmark = HenrikSoegaard
http://www.ratebeer.com/sendmessage/17613/

The Netherlands = Benzai
http://www.ratebeer.com/sendmessage/130058/

Poland = Radek Kliber
http://www.ratebeer.com/sendmessage/606/

Spain = Lowenbrau
http://www.ratebeer.com/sendmessage/37316/

Scotland = GlasgowTAD
http://www.ratebeer.com/sendmessage/292309/

(Japan = KansaiBeerLvrs ? )


I don’t what to impose this work onto these RB members, but if they have the time these guys are the perfect men in place.



<i />(edit: Lowenbrau added to the list)<i />

The hard part of splitting is the coding.

If there is a need for help assigning breweries/places to geographical subdivisions I am sure your local admins will appreciate voluntary efforts

It could be a good idea to seperate Bornholm from Hovedstaden as there are quite a long trip from Copenhagen to Rønne! That makes 6 regions in Denmark.(and most raters had tried Svaneke of Beer Here)

Originally posted by nilsas

Originally posted by Cunningham
If you want a really lot of new regions: Go Norway

Norway (19), Sweeden (21), Denmark (5) and Finland (6),
Clear defined regions and reasonable amounts of breweies.
I do split them today in my spreadsheet for own statistical purpose.
I would not mind at all if that was allready handled in RB.

Originally posted by HenrikSoegaard
It could be a good idea to seperate Bornholm from Hovedstaden as there are quite a long trip from Copenhagen to Rønne! That makes 6 regions in Denmark.(and most raters had tried Svaneke of Beer Here)

Originally posted by nilsas

Originally posted by Cunningham
If you want a really lot of new regions: Go Norway

Norway (19), Sweeden (21), Denmark (5) and Finland (6),
Clear defined regions and reasonable amounts of breweies.
I do split them today in my spreadsheet for own statistical purpose.
I would not mind at all if that was allready handled in RB.

It is also a question how to handle Svalbard in Norway. I beleve easiest is to handle Svalbard as a "Fylke" like the ordinary ones.
But on the other side the way new RB is now, I am sure there is more than me that strugles to find different info for statisitc interested in new layout.

Originally posted by HenrikSoegaard
It could be a good idea to seperate Bornholm from Hovedstaden as there are quite a long trip from Copenhagen to Rønne! That makes 6 regions in Denmark.(and most raters had tried Svaneke of Beer Here)

Originally posted by nilsas

Originally posted by Cunningham
If you want a really lot of new regions: Go Norway

Norway (19), Sweeden (21), Denmark (5) and Finland (6),
Clear defined regions and reasonable amounts of breweies.
I do split them today in my spreadsheet for own statistical purpose.
I would not mind at all if that was allready handled in RB.

Wait, if you already have a spreadsheet, that could save somebody a lot of work splitting them up...

It is not so much I have on that spreadsheet, I only have for the 4 northern countries, and only for the beer I have rated from there.
If that can be to any help getting started I will gladly help.
I would love to see Scandinavia on the RB "State" statistic in the same way as USA, Canada, England and Germany today.

Originally posted by solidfunk
Wait, if you already have a spreadsheet, that could save somebody a lot of work splitting them up...

It’s probably a start that would help whoever eventually does that, for sure. I’ll figure out what’s going on with this and beermail people