Re: Vocabulary for weather data logging?

Hi Nick,

You could try DWML[1,2]. 

Finding people on a grid is a fundamentally different process than forecasting points (please shut me up, quickly, for your own good).  In the US there is are County Warning Areas (CWA)[3] or the National Atlas[4].  The Global Map Project uses a 1km square grid [5]  which makes perfect sense for forecasts, but is not good enough for "commercial purposes" - if the purpose is to find people (rinse, repeat).

--Gannon

[1] http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/
[2] http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/survey/pgb_survey/dev/DWMLgen/schema/DWML.xsd
[3] http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/cntyzone.htm
[4] http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
[5] http://www.iscgm.org/


--- On Thu, 8/11/11, Oscar Corcho <ocorcho@fi.upm.es> wrote:

> From: Oscar Corcho <ocorcho@fi.upm.es>
> Subject: Re: Vocabulary for weather data logging?
> To: "Keith Alexander" <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com>, "Nicholas Humfrey" <njh@aelius.com>
> Cc: public-lod@w3.org
> Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 9:35 AM
> Hi Nick,
> 
> You may find useful the work that we have done at http://aemet.linkeddata.es/ where we are reusing the
> w3c ssn ontology that was referred to before. It's in
> Spanish partially so if you need help let me know.
> 
> Oscar
> 
> Enviado de Samsung Mobile
> 
> Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >Hi Nick,
> >
> >I recently put together
> >
> >http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/
> >
> >I used http://purl.org/ns/meteo# for most of the
> modelling, though you
> >might need different vocabulary for observations rather
> than
> >forecasts.
> >
> >I also created some new terms here:
> >
> >https://github.com/kwijibo/metoffice.dataincubator.org/blob/master/metoffice.vocab.ttl
> >
> >You can get the latest forecast for a metoffice
> forecast location as
> >turtle by going to:
> >
> >http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/areas/{area_code}/{place_code}/forecast-channel
> >eg:
> >http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/areas/os/lerwick/forecast-channel
> >
> >FWIW, I modelled temperatures as resources, with a
> meteo:celcius
> >property. I think Sean Palmer (meteo's author)
> > was doing the modelling like that, and Toby Inkster
> also recommended
> >that modelling to me, eg:
> >
> ><http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/temperatures/celcius/13>
> > meteo:celsius 13 ;
> > meteo:farenheit 55.4 ;
> > .
> >
> >I also put up http://purl.org/net/compass#  for
> wind directions etc,
> >which might be useful.
> >
> >I'd be interested in collaborating to get our data well
> linked and
> >interoperable (if it talks about some of the same
> places and things).
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Keith
> >
> >ps: I have no indepth knowledge about weather, so any
> corrections on
> >modelling, spelling, and other basic assumptions are
> welcome.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Nicholas Humfrey
> <njh@aelius.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am thinking of doing some weather data logging
> as RDF. Is there an existing vocabulary for logging
> temperature, pressure, wind speed etc ?
> >>
> >> I guess that the Event Ontology would be a good
> starting point.
> >> http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html
> >>
> >> On a related note, how wrong is it to encode the
> unit of measurement (eg Centigrade) as a datatype?
> >>
> >>
> >> nick.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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