Kelly Jones wrote:
> Has anyone converted the geographical data at
> "http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html"; (info on six million
> plus placenames) to RDF format?

not that I know of.

> Seems like this would be a fairly easy thing to do, and fairly useful?

Definately.

Even if geonames.org already offers a fairly useful set of web services
(some of which semantic). Also another dump that might be useful for
RDFization.

http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

What's weird is how they don't have an RDF dump... maybe we could ask
them to make one.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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