Re: Territorial Units Thesaurus

Hi,

Doug rightly suggests TGN, which is extremely comprehensive. But as 
far as I understand not available freely. BTW do you specifically need 
a thesaurus? Converting TGN to RDF/OWL (which I've been involved in 
for the MultimediaN project) delivers a much richer information source.

Mark.

Javier Lacasta wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> It is the first time I write in this maling list, so I want to salute 
> all of you.
> 
> I have to create a thesaurus of the territorial units of Spain and 
> France and I am going to use SKOS as storage format transforming the 
> available information in other formats. I wanted to know if any of you 
> know if this kind of  information is already available in SKOS format or 
> if in other countries there is other similar initiative that I can use 
> as base (information models, problems founds...).
> 
> Thaks in advance,
> Javier Lacasta
> 

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