On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:18:47PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote: > "All attempts to construct simple ontologies end up reinventing RDF" .. ?
That was actually my first thought when I saw this: "Hey look, someone else reinventing RDFa!" :) Seriously, I say this with a bit of knowledge; I mean, after all, I sort of work on making places searchable on maps. For a company with a pretty big set of data about the hierarchy of the world. It's a lot fuzzier than you think :) Also, Landon, I do highly recommend looking into RDF -- specifically, RDFa -- because I think it's heading in a very similar direction to what you're describing, without the need for some all-world-hierarchy to tie it to, which might actually help you get a bit further. -- Chris > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Christopher Schmidt > <crschm...@crschmidt.net> wrote: > > > How about the fact that although some counties contain cities, > > some cities exist over the border between multiple counties, and > > other counties are *contained* by cities? (Queens, Manhattan, etc.) > > > > How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysart_et_al,_Ontario? > > > > Any effort to turn the real world into a standard hierarchy > > will fail, because the world is Fuzzier than you realize. > > > > -- Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss