Hi Scott http://www.geonames.org is a good source of global Geospatial RDF linked data - it is a very large global dataset
For the UK: http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk is a good option freebase also has a large global geospatial dataset cheers Paul On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:38 PM, M. Scott Marshall <[email protected]>wrote: > It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical > place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I think > that I saw one mentioned here in the last few months. Are there > alternatives that are possible more fine-grained or designed > specifically for geo data? With multi-lingual labels? Perhaps somebody > has kept track of the options on a website? > > -Scott > > -- > M. Scott Marshall > http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Sarven Capadisli <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:01 +0100, Sarven Capadisli wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:07 +0200, Karl Dubost wrote: > >> > # Using RDFa (not implemented in browsers) > >> > > >> > > >> > <ul xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"; > id="places-rdfa"> > >> > <li><span > >> > about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal"; > >> > geo:lat_long="45.5,-73.666667">Montréal</span>, Canada</li> > >> > <li><span > >> > about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Paris"; > >> > geo:lat_long="48.856578,2.351828">Paris</span>, France</li> > >> > </ul> > >> > > >> > * Issue: Latitude and Longitude not separated > >> > (have to parse them with regex in JS) > >> > * Issue: xmlns with <!doctype html> > >> > > >> > > >> > # Question > >> > > >> > On RDFa vocabulary, I would really like a solution with geo:lat and > geo:long, Ideas? > >> > >> Am I overlooking something obvious here? There is lat, long properties > >> in wgs84 vocab. So, > >> > >> <span about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal";> > >> <span property="geo:lat" > >> content="45.5" > >> datatype="xsd:float"></span> > >> <span property="geo:lat" > >> content="-73.666667" > >> datatype="xsd:float"></span> > >> Montreal > >> </span> > >> > >> Tabbed for readability. You might need to get rid of whitespace. > >> > >> -Sarven > > > > Better yet: > > > > <li about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal";> > > <span property="geo:lat" > > ... > > > > > > -Sarven > >
