- From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:48:20 +0100
- To: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org, geonames@googlegroups.com
Hi Sören Have you any plans to link those data with geonames.org data? Bernard > > Hi all, > > We were working in the last weeks on bringing geo data derived from > the marvelous OpenStreetMap project [1] to the data web. This work in > progress is still far from being finished, however, we would like to > share some first preliminary results: > > * A *vast amount of point-of-interest descriptions* was extracted from > OSM and published as Linked Data at <http://linkedgeodata.org> > > * The *Linked Geo Data browser and editor* (available at > <http://linkedgeodata.org/browser>) is a facet-based browser for geo > content, which uses an OLAP inspired hypercube for quickly retrieving > aggregated information about any user selected area on earth. > > Further information can be also found in our AKSW project description: > > <http://aksw.org/Projects/LinkedGeoData> > > Thanks go to Sebastian Dietzold, Jens Lehmann, Sebastian Hellmann, > David Aumueller and other members of the AKSW team for their > contributions. > > Merry Christmas to everybody from Leipzig > > Sören > > > [1] http://openstreetmap.org > -- *Bernard Vatant *Senior Consultant Vocabulary & Data Engineering Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/> ----------------------------------------------------**
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