Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database
Dimitris and all, Cloudmade provides dumps of the openstreetmap data in various formats including shapefiles for all over the world. Those dumps have POIs included. All these can be found in: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ Checking around Raj's OpenPOIs, I see that POIs come from geonames or dbpedia datasets. Geonames already mentioned earlier. DBpedia, an attempt to provide structured information extracted from wikipedia, provides dumps in N-Triples and N-Quads. Data provided include geographic information as well. The dumps for version 3.8 can be found in: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads38 Also, LingedGeoData is an attempt to provide linked data between openstreetmap / DBpedia and GeoNames. The datasets can be found in RDF format here: http://linkedgeodata.org/Datasets http://downloads.linkedgeodata.org/ Vasilis. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Gérald Fenoy gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr wrote: Dear Dimitris, dear Raj, is there any way to share this dump publicly and get a link ? Waiting for your answer, Best regards, Gérald Fenoy gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr Le 23 janv. 2013 à 12:06, Dimitris Kotzinos kotz...@csd.uoc.gr a écrit : if you can send me a postgres/postgis dump, this would be extremely useful! (thanks!). ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gov't adopting open source ?
It seems the new Greek government turns to open source software for what it calls 'electronic government'. The new government through a series of one day conferences tries to describe its vision for a new way to provide services of public interest and stimuli businesses based on such software. Perhaps this link is worth of value. http://www.e-gif.gov.gr/portal/page/portal/egif Vasilis Vlastaras. Geomatics Developer. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote: I'm just starting to dig into this question myself, but thought I'd ask if anyone else knows of a resource/document/site, etc. that shows which governments (nationally, regional or municipal) have committed to open source software? Seems the list grows each month in my head, but I'm sure there are many more than I know. Tyler ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [GSDI Technical] blog - We need a Wikipedia for data
Freebase can be considered a 'wikipedia' of structured data. Freebase provides the data under creative commons and it is being developed by MetaWeb Technologies. Currently in Alpha release, there is an ongoing effort for developing prototype data objects and populating these objects with instances of data. A user community contributes heavily in the process (like in the case of wikipedia). Users create their own data types and upload data. Also a significant effort of developing algorithms to extract knowledge from wikipedia pages and to store it in a structured way in Freebase is currently taking place.. Freebase provides its own Data Query API based on JSON. The Geospatial Community can take advantage of this technology since the data are being provided by Creative Commons. Geographic Data Types may be possible to be developed in Freebase. Personally I have tried to evaluate Freebase's abilities by creating ISO 19115 Data Types for Geographic Metadata and it seems that Freebase could be very promising. For those interested, Freebase can be accessed in the following url: http://www.freebase.com/ A mashup that uses Google Maps and data from Freebase can be accessed here: http://dev.mqlx.com/~zak/arch/ For those who do not like a commercial company involved in Free Data, what about establishing an organization that can provide technologies similar to Freebase ? ie: 1. Website for users to access the community data 2. WebApp to allow community users create their own Data Types 3. WebApp to allow users upload structured data. 4. Open API for users to be able to consume / discover the uploaded data. Vasilis. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:21 PM, P Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/16/08, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought this might be of interest: ..Tom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kate Lance Sent: 15 April, 2008 1:02 PM To: SDI technical Subject: [GSDI Technical] blog - We need a Wikipedia for data maybe some from the geospatial community would care to submit a comment (regarding technical approach/architecture) in response to this recent blog post by Bret Taylor, ex-Googler, about the need for open data sets http://bret.appspot.com/entry/we-need-a-wikipedia-for-data We need a Wikipedia for data - April 9, 2008 Haven't read the above post, but I wonder if the poster(s) know about Open StreetMaps? between -00-00 and -99-99 ___ Technical mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/technical ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Time In GIS
I don't know if this is of value for you, but you can have a look. ISO publishes the 191xx series of specifications that deal with Geographic information. ISO 19108 - Temporal Schema, deals with time. The specification document can be bought from the ISO web site. In addition ISO Technical Commitee 211 provides the models for all these specifications in its website. The site can be access in: http://isotc211.org Vasilis. On Dec 13, 2007 11:23 PM, Landon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, That would be great. I'd really like to take a look at the thesis. You can send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Landon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brundage, Robert G Mr CIV USA IMCOM Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:21 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Time In GIS Landon; I did my master thesis on temporal GIS. It included a temporal GIS implementation of the ESRI personal geodatabase (sorry). But the concepts and methodology demonstrated in the thesis should be universal. I can email it to you if you wish. Bob Brundage GIS Coordinator Public Works (DPW) Bldg 865 Bastogne Ave 16th St For Campbell, KY 42223 PH: 270-798-9571 FAX: 270-798-2232 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landon Blake Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Time In GIS This is being sent to the geowanking and OSGEO discuss list. I apologize in advance if you catch it in your inbox twice, but I didn't want to miss any potential resources. I'm working on a GIS Data Model in which I am trying to model some temporal data. I've done a little research online, but most of the info is pretty ESRI specific. Although I'm somewhat curious about the use of temporal data in a GIS in general, I'm really interested in a specific approach to the problem. Does anyone know if there is material available that discusses using events to model temporal data? (Like the events we use in GUI programming.) I'd really like to read some software-neutral principles on how events can be used to model time in GIS if this is available. Or, if you have tackled this challenge personally, I'd love to learn more about your personal experience and solutions. Thanks, Landon (A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor) P.S. - I posted about the particular circumstances that led to my interest in this topic and some existing material I found online at my OpenJUMP blog: http://openjump.blogspot.com/ Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
