- From: Bernard vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:16:14 +0200
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Cc: Marc <marc@geonames.org>
Hello all I'm very pleased to announce that, through a quick and efficient collaboration with Marc (in cc), the 6 million and growing geographical features in the data base of Geonames [1] are now described by a OWL ontology [2], and the RDF description of each instance, including names, type, of course geolocation elements, is now available through Geonames Webservice, adding to an already impressive pack of services [3]. The ontology is very simple, and leverage elements of the wgs84_pos vocabulary [4]. The feature types are described using a simple SKOS vocabulary, which has been embedded in the OWL ontology. If you add that, thanks to Google Maps API, the geonames features can be created and edited through a wiki-like interface [5], this as Web 2.0 as can be. Comments welcome, either here or in the Geonames forum [6] Bernard [1] http://www.geonames.org [2] http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ [3] http://www.geonames.org/export/ [4] http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/#vocabulary [5] http://www.geonames.org/recent-changes/ [6] http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/156.page -- *Bernard Vatant *Knowledge Engineering ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca ** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- Tel. +33 (0) 871 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> Wikipedia:universimmedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Universimmedia>
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