On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Christopher Schmidt <crschm...@crschmidt.net> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:18:47PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote: >> "All attempts to construct simple ontologies end up reinventing RDF" .. ? > > That was actually my first thought when I saw this: "Hey look, > someone else reinventing RDFa!" :) > > Seriously, I say this with a bit of knowledge; I mean, after all, > I sort of work on making places searchable on maps. For a company > with a pretty big set of data about the hierarchy of the world. > It's a lot fuzzier than you think :) > > Also, Landon, I do highly recommend looking into RDF -- specifically, > RDFa -- because I think it's heading in a very similar direction to > what you're describing, without the need for some all-world-hierarchy > to tie it to, which might actually help you get a bit further.
You might want to look at http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ which RDFs the GeoNames database. Ian -- Ian Turton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss