- From: Marc <marc@geonames.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:15:26 +0200
- To: "Ruoff, Karl" <Karl.Ruoff@ngc.com>
- CC: Bernard vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Karl You can download the geonames database from here : http://www.geonames.org/export/ Web service client source code is available here : http://www.geonames.org/source-code/ For geonames specific questions not related with the Semantic Web you can contact me directly at marc@geonames.org There is also a forum : http://forum.geonames.org and a mailing list : http://groups.google.com/group/geonames Regards Marc Ruoff, Karl wrote: >Excellent! Can we obtain this software for use within our own enterprise? >V/r, >Karl Ruoff >Enterprise Engineering >Architecture & Information Services / Geospatial Intelligence >Northrop Grumman IT-TASC >314-259-7836 >karl.ruoff@ngc.com > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Bernard vatant >Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:16 PM >To: Semantic Web >Cc: Marc >Subject: Geonames enters the Semantic Web > > >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 > > >
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