Content and Categories

All entries in the Map of tomorrow are defined by three ways

1. Types (former categories)
2. Hashtags
3. Positive Impact Ratings

1. Types of Entries

These types where previously called "categories" but for the new frontend we changed it to types, because we want to promote certain prominent hashtags to categories. #48

Every entry on the map need to match one of the following Types.

• Organisations, not directly usable, but seperated in:
  • Initiatives (non-profit, movemets)
  • Companies (for-profit, services)
• Events

Future Additional Categories could be

• People (stored in a different Databasis, due to privacy reasions, i.e. in wechange.de)
• Products/Things

So we are not planning of having more than 5 Types

Technically these types can be just used in form of tags or with their corresponding ID.

• Initiatives: non-profit 2cd00bebec0c48ba9db761da48678134
• companies: commercial 77b3c33a92554bcf8e8c2c86cedd6f6f
• events: events

The problem is, that if there is an initiative with the hashtag #events, it could be interpreted and displayed like an event, if the frontend recognizes the type of entry only by their hashtags. More details are described in the API of the ofDB

2. Hashtags

Hashtags are very free and flexible to use. This makes the map very powerful, but in some cases difficult for new user to understand and find their content. That is why we want to improve the tagging system for "meta tags" or "categories" which will be defined entities, with translations in all major languages and which may have sub-tags which they refer to.

Example: If you look for "#organic" on the map, you will find "#bio" too, because it is the exact translation and additional you find entries like "#demeter" because it is a subdivision of "bio".

3. Positiv Impact Ratings

A third way to filter entries is by their rating. Each entry can have a positive and negative ratings and the average of all ratings defines their sustainability. So we could build filters for users to define if they only want to see "visionary" entry, all positive rated ones or even only entry with bad ratings "from yesterday"