- From: Marc <marc@geonames.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:26:46 +0200
- To: Chris Bizer <bizer@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
- CC: semantic-web@w3.org, bastian@quilitz.de, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Tobias Gauß <tobias.gauss@web.de>
> In order that Berlin as a city doesn't get mixed up with Berlin as a > state in Germany, it would be cool if your data about Berlin would > contain a rdf:type <http://www.geonames.org/ontology#City> triple, > which I could use in my query to specify exactly what I mean with > "Berlin". We have 751 places for the search term 'Berlin', 483 with 'Berlin' part of the name and 126 with the name equal 'Berlin'. I think it is better to use the URI to identify a feature. Even if you find a query to return only a single place, you have no guarantee that it will return a single row in the future. I hope we don't have to change the URIs again and it should therefore be safer to use a fix URI rather than a query. > This would be cool, but what I would even like more is a service that > I can use to translate the natural language names of places into URIs. > This could be realized by a SPARQL endpoint as described above or by > some other Web Service which takes a name and some type information as > input and returns the proper URI. The geonames search service already returns rdf documents. (just add the parameter "type=rdf") http://ws.geonames.org/search?name_equals=berlin&type=rdf&style=medium The search service documentation is here : http://www.geonames.org/export/geonames-search.html Cheers Marc
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