On 29 Jan 2007, at 18:44, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > 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.
They have RDF descriptions of each place in the database. The description is available by dereferencing the URI. Example: http:// sws.geonames.org/3213806/ , which is the part of Berlin where I live. I prefer this to a dump, because the data is already on the Web. > http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ > > What's weird is how they don't have an RDF dump... Why is this weird? Richard > maybe we could ask > them to make one. > > -- > Stefano Mazzocchi > Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
