Location Types Registry
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- 2006-06-19
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- 2016-04-26
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Location Types
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Martin Thomson
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- [RFC4589]
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| Token | Description |
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| aircraft | A device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air, such as an airplane, helicopter, gyroplane, glider or lighter-than-air devices like a balloon. |
| airport | A place from which aircraft operate, such as an airport or heliport. |
| arena | Enclosed area used for sports events. |
| automobile | A usually four-wheeled automotive vehicle designed for passenger transportation, such as a car. |
| bank | Business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged. |
| bar | A bar or saloon. |
| bus | A large motor vehicle designed to carry passengers. |
| bicycle | A vehicle with two wheels tandem, a steering handle, a saddle seat, and pedals by which it is propelled. |
| bus-station | Terminal that serves bus passengers, such as a bus depot or bus terminal. |
| cafe | Usually small and informal establishment serving various refreshments (such as coffee); coffee shop. |
| classroom | Academic classroom or lecture hall. |
| club | Dance club, nightclub or discotheque. |
| construction | Construction site. |
| convention-center | Convention center or exhibition hall. |
| government | Government building, such as those used by the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of governments, including court houses, police stations and military installations. |
| hospital | Hospital, hospice, medical clinic, mental institution, or doctor's office. |
| hotel | Hotel, motel, inn or other lodging establishment. |
| industrial | Industrial setting, such as a manufacturing floor or power plant. |
| library | Library or other public place in which literary and artistic materials, such as books, music, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, prints, records, and tapes, are kept for reading, reference, or lending. |
| motorcycle | A two-wheeled automotive vehicle, including a scooter. |
| museum | Location where objects of historical, artistic, scientific or cultural interest are stored and exhibited. |
| office | Business setting, such as an office. |
| other | A place without a registered place type representation. |
| outdoors | Outside a building, in or into the open air, such as a park or city streets. |
| parking | A parking lot or parking garage. |
| place-of-worship | A religious site where congregations gather for religious observances, such as a church, chapel, meetinghouse, mosque, shrine, synagogue, or temple. |
| prison | Correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment, such as a prison, penitentiary, jail, brig. |
| public | Public area such as a shopping mall, street, park, public building, train station, airport or in public conveyance such as a bus, train, plane or ship. This general description encompasses the more precise descriptors 'street', 'public-transport', 'aircraft', 'bus', 'bus-station', 'train', 'train-station', 'airport', 'shopping-area', 'outdoors', and 'watercraft'. |
| public-transport | Any form of public transport, including aircraft, bus, train or ship. |
| residence | A private or residential setting, not necessarily the personal residence of the entity, e.g., including a friend's home. |
| restaurant | Restaurant, coffee shop or other public dining establishment. |
| school | School or university property, but not necessarily a classroom or library. |
| shopping-area | Shopping mall or shopping area. This area is a large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways. |
| stadium | Large, usually open structure for sports events, including a racetrack. |
| store | Place where merchandise is offered for sale, such as a shop. |
| street | A public thoroughfare, such as a avenue, street, alley, lane, road, including any sidewalks. |
| theater | Theater, lecture hall, auditorium, class room, movie theater or similar facility designed for presentations, talks, plays, music performances and other events involving an audience. |
| train | Train, monorail, maglev, cable car or similar conveyance. |
| train-station | Terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods; railway station, railroad station, railroad terminal, train depot. |
| truck | An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling, used primarily to carry goods rather than people. |
| underway | In a land, water, or air craft which is underway (in motion). |
| unknown | The type of place is unknown. |
| warehouse | Place in which goods or merchandise are stored, such as a storehouse or self-storage facility. |
| water | In, on or above bodies of water, such as an ocean, lake, river, canal or other waterway. |
| watercraft | On a vessel for travel on water such as a boat or ship. |