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world.ptah.temp.location

A pin dropped on a map that does not exist yet. The pin creates the place. Hwt-ka-Ptah — the House of the Ka of Ptah — gave Egypt its name. A place becomes so significant that it names everything around it.

Repository @ptah.world did:plc:l45z35sxxjuobp5q65a5vu22 namespace authority
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Properties

authorshipRecord

string · did

Permanent link to the creator. Provenance travels.

canonicalStatus

string

The canonical standing of this location within its world.

  • knownValues: world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusOfficial | world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusCommunity | world.ptah.temp.defs#canonicalStatusApocryphal

createdAt

requiredstring · datetime

Timestamp of location creation.

creatorDID

requiredstring · did

Who named and defined this place.

depthIndex

integer

How deep in the geographic hierarchy this location sits. World-level is 0, continent is 1, country is 2, city is 3, and so on. Any rendering layer can read this single number and decide how much geographic context it needs without traversing the full parent chain.

  • minimum: 0

description

string

What kind of place this is, in plain language.

  • maxLength: 10240
  • maxGraphemes: 1024

locationType

string

The geographic or spatial classification. Open-ended so any kind of world geography works.

  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64
  • knownValues: city | region | building | territory | landmark | vessel | abstractSpace

name

requiredstring

What this place is called.

  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64

parentLocation

string · at-uri

If this location exists inside a larger location — a tavern inside a city, a room inside a building. Lets geography nest infinitely. Places come into existence as people need them.

properties

ref

Flexible fields — climate, population, controlling faction, notable history. Whatever the world requires.

Reference

worldReference

requiredstring · at-uri

The AT URI of the world this location exists in.

#locationProperties

object

Flexible properties for any kind of world geography. All fields optional — worlds define what matters.

Properties

climate

string
  • maxLength: 2560
  • maxGraphemes: 256

controllingFaction

string
  • maxLength: 2560
  • maxGraphemes: 256

notableHistory

string
  • maxLength: 10240
  • maxGraphemes: 1024

population

string
  • maxLength: 2560
  • maxGraphemes: 256

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