- From: Marc <marc@geonames.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:18:11 +0200
- To: "Elisa F. Kendall" <ekendall@sandsoft.com>
- CC: Debbie Garside <md@ictenterprise.co.uk>, "'WWW International'" <www-international@w3.org>, "'Semantic web list'" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "'LTRU Working Group'" <ltru@ietf.org>
Hi Elisa A huge resource for place names in local languages is the geonames.org project [1]. The countryInfo in the export section includes the official languages per country and official languages for first order administrative divisions or even finer granularity should soon be available. Best regards Marc Wick www.geonames.org [1] http://www.geonames.org/export/ Elisa F. Kendall wrote: > Hi Debbie, > > Thanks for the warning. We did know that it was incomplete, but are > interested in representations of place names in local languages, so > having a structure for capturing this information, even if incomplete, > is useful. We're also looking at other government and research > community resources to assist with both structure and content. If you > have suggestions for references, that would be helpful. > > Best regards, > > Elisa
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