Hi Andy, if there are dereferencable URIs for the areas, you could link them to the corresponding DBpedia concept. For example area 2514 (http://mapit.mysociety.org/area/2514.html) is the same as http://dbpedia.org/resource/Birmingham_City_Council. Silk [1] might come in handy for this linking job.
And of course it would also be nice if you find a way to share the regions data in RDF. Cheers, Max [1] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/ On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello - this is my first post here. > > MySociety's MaPit service now provides open data for any point in the > UK, from its coordinates (or postcode), returning the containing > administrative areas such as ward and constituency. So, if a Wikipedia > article about any UK subject is geotagged, the relevant containing > areas (and thus authorities) for the location can be determined. > > For example see Electric Cinema, Birmingham: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Cinema,_Birmingham > > then select the coordinates (shown by default in the top-right), and > on the page of links to mapping services: > > > http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Electric_Cinema,_Birmingham¶ms=52.4766_N_-1.8987_E_type:landmark > > the MaPit link: > > http://mapit.mysociety.org/point/4326/-1.8987,52.4766.html > > is the final item under the "Great Britain" heading. Dropping the > ".html" suffix returns JSON: > > http://mapit.mysociety.org/point/4326/-1.8987,52.4766 > > Either tells us that the cinema is in Ladywood ward of Birmingham City > Council, Birmingham Ladywood constituency, and so on. > > Can this data be used/ referenced by DBPedia? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
