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¶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
