Re: Geonames enters the Semantic Web

Hi Karl

You can download the geonames database from here : 
http://www.geonames.org/export/
Web service client source code is available here : 
http://www.geonames.org/source-code/

For geonames specific questions not related with the Semantic Web you 
can contact me directly at marc@geonames.org
There is also a forum : http://forum.geonames.org  and a mailing list : 
http://groups.google.com/group/geonames

Regards

Marc

Ruoff, Karl wrote:

>Excellent! Can we obtain this software for use within our own enterprise?
>V/r,
>Karl Ruoff
>Enterprise Engineering 
>Architecture & Information Services / Geospatial Intelligence 
>Northrop Grumman IT-TASC
>314-259-7836
>karl.ruoff@ngc.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Bernard vatant
>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:16 PM
>To: Semantic Web
>Cc: Marc
>Subject: Geonames enters the Semantic Web
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>Hello all
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>I'm very pleased to announce that, through a quick and efficient collaboration with Marc (in cc), the 6 million and growing geographical features in the data base of Geonames [1] are now described by a OWL ontology [2], and the RDF description of each instance, including names, type, of course geolocation elements, is now available through Geonames Webservice,  adding to an already impressive pack of  services [3].
>The ontology is very simple, and leverage elements of the wgs84_pos vocabulary [4]. The feature types are described using a simple SKOS vocabulary, which has been embedded in the OWL ontology.
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>If you add that, thanks to Google Maps API, the geonames features can be created and edited through a wiki-like interface [5], this as Web 2.0 as can be.
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>Comments welcome, either here or in the Geonames forum [6]
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>Bernard
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>[1] http://www.geonames.org
>[2] http://www.geonames.org/ontology/
>[3] http://www.geonames.org/export/
>[4] http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/#vocabulary
>[5] http://www.geonames.org/recent-changes/
>[6] http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/156.page
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