On 29 janv. 07, at 20:25, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > > 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.
FYI, quoting an answer from a guy who works on Geonames, > An already existing other entry point is the search service. It now > takes an optional argument type=rdf to return the result in rdf. > Example : http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=ecrins&type=rdf -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66 Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86 91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66 Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86 91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
