Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

Scott,

On 09/08/2011 04:38 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote:
> It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical
> place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I think
> that I saw one mentioned here in the last few months. Are there
> alternatives that are possible more fine-grained or designed
> specifically for geo data? With multi-lingual labels? Perhaps somebody
> has kept track of the options on a website?

we have made an RDF version of GADM [1] available at [2], and are working
on interlinking that dataset with other Linked Data sources (such as
DBpedia and GeoNames).   It's work in progress so we welcome feedback.

There's also a list with some geospatial datasets [3].

Best regards,
Andreas.

[1] http://gadm.org/
[2] http://gadm.geovocab.org/
[3] http://wiki.planet-data.eu/web/GeoData

Received on Friday, 9 September 2011 09:58:12 UTC