I can't, because I don't work no the project. The home page has
contact details, but I will forward your message to my contact there.

Thank you.

On 12 October 2010 16:01, Max Jakob <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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&params=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

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