- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:20:02 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4E6A2092.6060300@openlinksw.com>
On 9/9/11 8:58 AM, Leigh Dodds wrote: > Hi, > > As well as the others already mentioned there's also Yahoo Geoplanet: > > http://beta.kasabi.com/dataset/yahoo-geoplanet > > This has multi-lingual labels and is cross-linked to the Ordnance > Survey data, Dbpedia, but that could be improved. > > As for a list, there are currently 34 geography related datasets > listed in Kasabi here: > > http://beta.kasabi.com/browse/datasets/results/og_category%3A147 Leigh, Can anyone access these datasets or must they obtain a kasabi account en route to authenticated access? Kingsley > Cheers, > > L. > > On 8 September 2011 15:38, M. Scott Marshall<mscottmarshall@gmail.com> 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? >> >> -Scott >> >> -- >> M. Scott Marshall >> http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Sarven Capadisli<info@csarven.ca> wrote: >>> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:01 +0100, Sarven Capadisli wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:07 +0200, Karl Dubost wrote: >>>>> # Using RDFa (not implemented in browsers) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> <ul xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" id="places-rdfa"> >>>>> <li><span >>>>> about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal" >>>>> geo:lat_long="45.5,-73.666667">Montréal</span>, Canada</li> >>>>> <li><span >>>>> about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Paris" >>>>> geo:lat_long="48.856578,2.351828">Paris</span>, France</li> >>>>> </ul> >>>>> >>>>> * Issue: Latitude and Longitude not separated >>>>> (have to parse them with regex in JS) >>>>> * Issue: xmlns with<!doctype html> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> # Question >>>>> >>>>> On RDFa vocabulary, I would really like a solution with geo:lat and geo:long, Ideas? >>>> Am I overlooking something obvious here? There is lat, long properties >>>> in wgs84 vocab. So, >>>> >>>> <span about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal"> >>>> <span property="geo:lat" >>>> content="45.5" >>>> datatype="xsd:float"></span> >>>> <span property="geo:lat" >>>> content="-73.666667" >>>> datatype="xsd:float"></span> >>>> Montreal >>>> </span> >>>> >>>> Tabbed for readability. You might need to get rid of whitespace. >>>> >>>> -Sarven >>> Better yet: >>> >>> <li about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal"> >>> <span property="geo:lat" >>> ... >>> >>> >>> -Sarven >> > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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