On 13 Jul 2009, at 11:34, Mikel Maron wrote:
> Sean Gillies wrote:
> > It's curious how alien the concept of geographic entities
identified by URIs is to GIS folks. See Adena Schutzberg (not a
programmer, but no dummy) scramble to make sense of it:
> > http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/6086-Linked-Geodata-OSM-Gets-Linkable.html
. For all the talk of "GeoWeb" in GIS, we still don't quite get the
web.
>
> From: Bill Thoen <[email protected]>
> Well, when you pack 80 lbs of baggage into a 20lb suitcase, it
makes that suitcase surprisingly hard to lift. With sentences like
this one:
>
> "LinkedGeoData currently comprises RDF dumps, Linked Data and REST
interfaces, links to DBpedia as well as a prototypical user
interface for linked-geo-data browsing and authoring."
>
> Adena concludes "that project is about making OSM more useful for
programmers and to provide tools to browse it and author in it."
Adena is smart, but gets this one wrong. Can anyone explain how an
RDF representation of OSM is going to help any programmer?
Many many programmers, some from a web background, others GIS, make
perfectly awesome use of OSM. It also happens to have geographic
entities identified by URIs, and a RESTful UI. That doesn't mean
there isn't anything to improve, but I'm doubtful RDF is it
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6
+1
Best
Steve
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