Re: URI's for Geogrid like Resource

@w3.org *Subject:* URI's for Geogrid like Resource Hi LOD'ers, In the GeoSpecies data set I have a predicate isExpectedIn. This is used to state that a given species is expected in a geographical area. Most of the time I use the geonames features as the object So http

Re: URI's for Geogrid like Resource

A blog post by Rod Page about a month ago has lots of interesting bits of information regarding this: http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/05/referring-to-one-degree-square-in-rdf.html Also see Geohash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash -hilmar On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Peter

RE: URI's for Geogrid like Resource

:20 To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: URI's for Geogrid like Resource Hi LOD'ers, In the GeoSpecies data set I have a predicate isExpectedIn. This is used to state that a given species is expected in a geographical area. Most of the time I use the geonames features as the object So http

Re: URI's for Geogrid like Resource

Hi Peter Did you consider using URIs in the new geo: URI scheme defined by RFC 5870 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5870? Although I do not figure how such URIs fit in the Linked Data architecture, since they are not http URIS This would need URI's that are of a grid equally sized polygons that

Re: URI's for Geogrid like Resource

One solution would be to extend this new standard with a box variant that would create a box instead of the circle that is created with the u uncertainty parameter. Something like: *geo:37.00,-93.00;box=1* I have had queries like this working at the state and county level for