Geographic Entity Description

The Pleiades Portal and map visualizations require feature descriptions for

  • Summary views (text)
  • populating popups in map and Google Earth

Description is a standard AT field.

http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#description

The Barrington Atlas doesn't give us a description or abstract. We might generate one like

description = "An ancient %s called %s (near modern %s)." \
            % (self.getGeoEntityType(), self.getAncientName(), self.getModernName())