Location Types Registry

Created: 2006-06-19
Last Updated: 2024-05-22
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Location Types

Location Types

Registration Procedure(s)

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Martin Thomson

Reference

[RFC4589]

Note

For "location-type" schema and URN sub-namespace registrations, 
see [IANA registry xml-registry].

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Token	Description	Reference
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.	[RFC4589]
airport	A place from which aircraft operate, such as an airport or heliport.	[RFC4589]
arena	Enclosed area used for sports events.	[RFC4589]
automobile	A usually four-wheeled automotive vehicle designed for passenger transportation, such as a car.	[RFC4589]
bank	Business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged.	[RFC4589]
bar	A bar or saloon.	[RFC4589]
bus	A large motor vehicle designed to carry passengers.	[RFC4589]
bicycle	A vehicle with two wheels tandem, a steering handle, a saddle seat, and pedals by which it is propelled.	[RFC4589]
bus-station	Terminal that serves bus passengers, such as a bus depot or bus terminal.	[RFC4589]
cafe	Usually small and informal establishment serving various refreshments (such as coffee); coffee shop.	[RFC4589]
classroom	Academic classroom or lecture hall.	[RFC4589]
club	Dance club, nightclub or discotheque.	[RFC4589]
construction	Construction site.	[RFC4589]
convention-center	Convention center or exhibition hall.	[RFC4589]
government	Government building, such as those used by the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of governments, including court houses, police stations and military installations.	[RFC4589]
hospital	Hospital, hospice, medical clinic, mental institution, or doctor's office.	[RFC4589]
hotel	Hotel, motel, inn or other lodging establishment.	[RFC4589]
industrial	Industrial setting, such as a manufacturing floor or power plant.	[RFC4589]
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.	[RFC4589]
motorcycle	A two-wheeled automotive vehicle, including a scooter.	[RFC4589]
museum	Location where objects of historical, artistic, scientific or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.	[NENA NG9-1-1 CLDXF-US]
office	Business setting, such as an office.	[RFC4589]
other	A place without a registered place type representation.	[RFC4589]
outdoors	Outside a building, in or into the open air, such as a park or city streets.	[RFC4589]
parking	A parking lot or parking garage.	[RFC4589]
place-of-worship	A religious site where congregations gather for religious observances, such as a church, chapel, meetinghouse, mosque, shrine, synagogue, or temple.	[RFC4589]
prison	Correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment, such as a prison, penitentiary, jail, brig.	[RFC4589]
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'.	[RFC4589]
public-transport	Any form of public transport, including aircraft, bus, train or ship.	[RFC4589]
residence	A private or residential setting, not necessarily the personal residence of the entity, e.g., including a friend's home.	[RFC4589]
restaurant	Restaurant, coffee shop or other public dining establishment.	[RFC4589]
school	School or university property, but not necessarily a classroom or library.	[RFC4589]
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.	[RFC4589]
stadium	Large, usually open structure for sports events, including a racetrack.	[RFC4589]
store	Place where merchandise is offered for sale, such as a shop.	[RFC4589]
street	A public thoroughfare, such as a avenue, street, alley, lane, road, including any sidewalks.	[RFC4589]
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.	[RFC4589]
train	Train, monorail, maglev, cable car or similar conveyance.	[RFC4589]
train-station	Terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods; railway station, railroad station, railroad terminal, train depot.	[RFC4589]
truck	An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling, used primarily to carry goods rather than people.	[RFC4589]
underway	In a land, water, or air craft which is underway (in motion).	[RFC4589]
unknown	The type of place is unknown.	[RFC4589]
warehouse	Place in which goods or merchandise are stored, such as a storehouse or self-storage facility.	[RFC4589]
water	In, on or above bodies of water, such as an ocean, lake, river, canal or other waterway.	[RFC4589]
watercraft	On a vessel for travel on water such as a boat or ship.	[RFC4589]