Re: Need compelling story on the value of ontologies in fusing location-based data

Thomas B. Passin wrote:

> [Leo Sauermann]
> 
> 
>>With semantic web you could make COOL queries like
>>"which companies that need my products are around here where my Car is
>>and have not been contacted by my coworkers ?"
>>
>>
> 
> Starbase had a project where they wrapped about half a dozen company
> databases in topic map wrappers, including CRM, but tracking,  and GIS
> databases.  They actually could answer queestions much like yours above.  (I
> do not think that they had the locations of their cars in the system).
> 


It would be strange to find a compelling story for either topicmaps or RDF 
which was not a story for the other.

Jeremy