On re-reading your mail, you seem to be suggesting that MaPit should link to DBPedia.
I'm suggesting that DBPedia could extract data from MaPit, or perhaps link to MaPit. MaPit is open source, should you want to do more with it. 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
