On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Bob Basques wrote: > All, > > I'm a long time address database creation/maintenance/re-creation fiend > myself. > > I've also been working with the USNG (MGRS) gridding system the last few > years, and need to at least suggest the idea of > using a Gridding system to locate things. This idea is not nbew, but USNG > usage has gained quite a bit of ground the > last couple of years across all level of government, with a large emphasis > placed on using it for disaster response. > > Tying a placeName to a grid location that can describe things down to the > centimeter if needed and still stay unique as > a location is a very good thing.
Don't be too sure at the centimeter level. "The average rate of motion across the San Andreas Fault Zone during the past 3 million years is 56 mm/yr (2 in/yr). " -- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/facts.php I like Chris Schmidt's quote: "The world is fuzzier than you realize". Allan > > bobb > > > > On 10/5/2010 8:52 PM, Landon Blake wrote: >> The geonames ontology looks like it might work for me. I'll read it over >> tomorrow. >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. >> >> Landon >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:45 PM, "Ian Turton"<ijtur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Christopher Schmidt >>> <crschm...@crschmidt.net> wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> You might want to look at http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ which RDFs >>> the GeoNames database. >>> >>> Ian >>> -- >>> Ian Turton >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> 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 -- Allan Doyle Director of Technology MIT Museum | http://web.mit.edu/museum | +1.617.452.2111 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
