- From: Andreas Harth <andreas@harth.org>
- Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:57:43 +0200
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- CC: Juan Salas <jmsalas@gmail.com>
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
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