Re: Using the core location vocabulary to query national address data

Thanks Frans.

But I quickly changed my mind when I started noticing how  addresses are formatted in scientific papers. They just use commas.
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Yes, in the scientific world, address components are treated as comma separated columns.  That is not quite the same thing as comma joined rows (eigenvectors).  It is terribly tempting to see address components as address elements.  The set of street numbers on a street might be helpful for navigation ("third house on the left",etc.), but the "academic" use for this information breaks down globally.


I left off the country name on purpose, because it would not be needed within the country and could easily be added otherwise.
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And here, exactly, is where the global breakdown (components versus elements) occurs.

Acronyms for countries and languages are two or three character codes.  The Code Pages can always be reduced to two dimensions, so for example [A-Z]{2} = 26^2 = 676 or [A-Z]{3} = 26^3 = 17576 < 133^2.  The signifigance of this is that any [A-Z]{3} can be fully (over) subscribed by 133 unicode glyphs, which is to say the codeset will obey the Caley-Hamilton Theorem[1].

There is a little problem: see A bogus "proof": p(A) = det(AIn − A) = det(A − A) = 0.  Virtual addresses and URL's manifest this way, but fail to prove the theorem, and if you can not use the theorem then you get undesired (not to say silly) convergence - everybody speaks English or lives in Albania, etc.

--Gannon

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Hamilton_theorem


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On Fri, 6/27/14, Frans Knibbe | Geodan <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Using the core location vocabulary to query national address   data
 To: "Gannon Dick" <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>, "public-locadd@w3.org" <public-locadd@w3.org>
 Date: Friday, June 27, 2014, 9:00 AM
 
 
   
 
     
   
   
     On 2014-06-13
 19:48, Gannon Dick wrote:
 
     
     
       
 
 "Would it make sense to use HMTL tags for
 formatting?"
 
 Yes, it would to me, because I am bone tired of look-alike
 abstractions :-)
     
     At first I was thinking about using HTML to put line
 breaks in an
     address. But I quickly changed my mind when I started
 noticing how
     addresses are formatted in scientific papers. They just
 use commas.
     I think plain commas are nicer than fancy formatting
 because  an
     address with only commas could embedded directly in any
 text. To use
     such an address to put on a mail envelope, one would
 only have to
     replace the commas with line breaks.
 
     
 
     It was rather less trivial then I thought, but I have
 now managed to
     add full addresses to the data set. For example, the
 following query
     returns all full address within a specified postal code
 zone:
 
     
 
     prefix locn: <http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#>
 
     select ?full_address
 
     from
       <http://lod.geodan.nl/basisreg/bag/nummeraanduiding/>
 
     where {
 
         ?address a locn:Address
 .
 
         ?address locn:postCode
 "1021GL"^^xsd:string.
 
         ?address locn:fullAddress
 ?full_address .
 
     }
 
     
 
     (Click here
     to issue this request in your web browser and see the
 results)
 
     
 
  
 
     
 
     Regards,
 
     Frans
 
     
 
     
       
 
 Cheers,
 Gannon
 
     
     
 
     
 
     
         
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