Re: [linking-data] What should I link to? (or link between)

Well from the many bruises and scars I carry from Google's attempt to map
world boundaries, I can assure you there is no single authoritative source,
that said I think this "stamp collecting" process is really useful..

ed


On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 10:30 Little, Chris <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk>
wrote:

> There was a recent discussion in public-locadd@w3.org about addresses and
> registries, with side mentions of territories, regions etc. No real
> consensus, so that indicates to me that Jon’s suggestion of ‘stamp
> collecting’ may have some merit. Here is my starting contribution with some
> obscurities that may be useful to Jon at least.
>
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> ·         Country codes (3 and2 letter): ISO 3166
>
> ·         WMO regions and territories in some unprocessable WMO Manual
> which I can dig out, but many years ago I copied them into the:
>
> ·         NASA GCMD keywords at
> http://gcmdservices.gsfc.nasa.gov/static/kms/locations/locations.csv
>
> ·         Addressing UML conceptual model ISO 19160-1, national schema,
> such NZ, being developed now
>
> ·         IHO Limits to the Seas and Oceans
> http://www.iho.int/mtg_docs/com_wg/S-23WG/S-23WG_Misc/Draft_2002/Draft_2002.htm.
> I made a shapefile of this many years ago, and it was somewhere in the UK
> NODC
>
> Is that what you had in mind Jon?
>
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>
> Chris
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> *From:* Jon Blower [mailto:j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 06, 2015 11:32 AM
> *To:* Linda van den Brink
> *Cc:* SDW WG (public-sdw-wg@w3.org)
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [linking-data] What should I link to? (or link between)
>
>
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> Yes - and I would also like to link to an authoritative database of
> boundaries (geometries) representing accepted definitions of countries,
> regions, continents, oceans, seas and so forth. Some of these might be
> present in INSPIRE (I don’t know) or perhaps in more specialist databases.
> Might be useful to collect these.
>
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>
> Jon
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> On 6 Oct 2015, at 11:03, Linda van den Brink <l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl>
> wrote:
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> This has become a thread about linking into coverages, but my initial
> understanding of this question leads me to give answers more in the
> direction of ‘which reference geo data on the web should I link to’
>
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> So
>
> -          GeoNames
>
> -          Dbpedia
>
> -          INSPIRE or national data about addresses, geographical names,
> etc.
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> -          ...
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