Hello Stuart; Unfortunately TBC 2.6.2 is beyond our support horizon - the release date was August 2008. I wouldn't see this feature as a demo maker, but as a model builder, I have found it quite convenient (see the geography sample in the TBC workspace, which was populated with buggy DBpedia data and refined through this feature). Really sorry for the inconvenience. For a demo with a user audience, I'd suggest TopBraid Ensemble. If it's really a demo maker for a modeling environment, then see if a Mac can be borrowed. It could work on Linux as well.
The Drag-and-drop to geography view does work. You just need to make sure instances are dropped to the bottom border that says "Drop resources here to add them to current the view." It's always worked this way and is admittedly not the most intuitive. Insofar as richer querying is concerned, I'd suggest taking a look at SPARQL, which has the triple advantage of being a W3C Semantic Web W3C standard, more expressive than Prolog, and works across all RDF-based triple stores, including text serializations (furthermore, TBC federates multiple types of RDF stores/file with not effort beyond owl:imports). It's also easier to learn (having done both in the past) - I guess that's four reasons to start with. Oh, the query language is the same as data - RDF triples. That's five... etc. Between these, you should be able to do a killer demo for environmental or any other topic. A LOT has happened since 2008 take a look at http://topquadrant.com to start with. We'd be happy to help as questions arise. -- Scott On Jul 5, 7:22 pm, Stewart Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > Holger, > > Bummer, I'm working on a fairly major university presentation in the > next 2-3 weeks - a good opportunity to spruik the semantic web to > environmental management people and the geography is pretty crucial. > I'm using the TBC3.4/AG3.3 combo to get the richer prolog querying > from TBC - you can't get that in TBC262 can you? (at least I tried and > it didn't appear to work). > > Please let me know of any developments asap. > > Stewart > > On Jul 6, 8:48 am, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Stewart, > > > we have reproduced problems of the Geography view on Windows and have filed > > a bug report on our tracking system. Possibly the built-in Web Browser of > > Eclipse has changed in one of the recent updates, and we failed to notice > > this. The only known work-around is to use a Mac or an older TBC version > > for this feature. > > > Your patience is appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > Holger > > > On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:35 PM, Stewart Wallace wrote: > > > > WindowsXP. As I say, my older version doesn't have any trouble. I > > > also installed 3.5 a little while ago - it doesn't work on that > > > version either. > > > > On Jul 5, 5:05 pm, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi Stewart, > > > >> I have just tried it with TBC-ME 3.5.1 on my Mac and it appears to work > > >> fine. What operating system are you using? Does anyone else here have > > >> the same problem? > > > >> Thanks > > >> Holger > > > >> On Jul 5, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Stewart Wallace wrote: > > > >>> I have recently installed TBCME 3.4 and I can't seem to get the > > >>> geography working. I have obatined and entered a GM-key and the > > >>> google-map shows up in the geog window as expected. The usual imports > > >>> re present and the other parameters under Preferences/Topbraid/ > > >>> Geography look normal. > > > >>> However, when I select a location and attempt to associate it with an > > >>> instance, I don't get the usual dialog asking if I want to associate > > >>> the location with the current resource (or create a new one etc.) - > > >>> the red icon just clicks on and off. Nor will it zoom to a resource > > >>> when I drag it onto the geog view. Nor does 'show all resources on > > >>> this map' do anything. I have tried all these things using the geo- > > >>> travel example so it's not some issue with my own ontology. > > > >>> The functionality works fine on my old TBC262. The TBC34 is still > > >>> running under a demo license but I didn't think that would cause this > > >>> problem. > > > >>> Is there some extra bit of configuration I have forgotten to do? > > > >>> Thanks, > > > >>> Stewart Wallace > > > >>> -- > > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >>> Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid > > >>> Composer, > > >>> TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > > >>> To post to this group, send email to > > >>> [email protected] > > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >>> [email protected] > > >>> For more options, visit this group at > > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid > > > Composer, > > > TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. 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