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

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 
<http://lod.geodan.nl/sparql?default-graph-uri=&query=prefix+locn%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2Fns%2Flocn%23%3E%0D%0Aselect+%3Ffull_address%0D%0Afrom+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Flod.geodan.nl%2Fbasisreg%2Fbag%2Fnummeraanduiding%2F%3E%0D%0Awhere+%7B%0D%0A%09%3Faddress+a+locn%3AAddress+.%0D%0A%09%3Faddress+locn%3ApostCode+%221021GL%22%5E%5Exsd%3Astring.%0D%0A%09%3Faddress+locn%3AfullAddress+%3Ffull_address+.%0D%0A%7D%0D%0A&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on> 
to issue this request in your web browser and see the results)

I left off the country name on purpose, because it would not be needed 
within the country and could easily be added otherwise.

Regards,
Frans

>
> Cheers,
> Gannon


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