Josh (and all), IIRC, in our gazetteering session at the 2011 AAG a panel concluded that the era of global place or feature type taxonomies was over. Do you think that's still a valid conclusion? Should schema.org be advised to stay away from this area?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Joshua Lieberman <j...@oklieb.net> wrote: > > > > > > > ... so what might we say of it in Schema.org? > > Well, maybe we would say it's an Island? Pretty tough, > http://schema.org/Landform has Volcano and Continent but no island. > Are there standard medium-sized lists of expected values we should be > using here? > > > From Geonames.org:ISLislanda tract of land, smaller than a continent, > surrounded by water at high waterISLETisletsmall island, bigger than > rock, smaller than island.ISLFartificial islandan island created by > landfill or diking and filling in a wetland, bay, or lagoonISLMmangrove > islanda mangrove swamp surrounded by a waterbodyISLSislandstracts of > land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high waterISLTland-tied > islanda coastal island connected to the mainland by barrier beaches, > levees or dikesISLXsection of islandISTHisthmusa narrow strip of land > connecting two larger land masses and bordered by water > > > Ok so picking from http://schema.org/Place ... let's go with > http://schema.org/TouristAttraction. Maybe we'll describe the island, > and then use Place's containedIn relation to describe the city (also > called Korcula) that's on the island. > > So, it's a thing of type http://schema.org/TouristAttraction ... it > has a 'geo' property pointing to a thing that is of type > http://schema.org/GeoShape ... which in turn has a 'polygon' property > whose value is the Text, > > "17.052154541015, 42.984695434571 17.108459472656, 42.969589233399 > 17.140045166015, 42.962722778321 17.166137695312, 42.942123413087 > 17.181243896484, 42.929763793946 17.212829589844, 42.922897338868 > 17.208709716797, 42.898178100587 17.177124023437, 42.898178100587 > 17.090606689453, 42.895431518555 16.964263916015, 42.911911010743 > 16.839294433594, 42.87208557129 16.833801269531, 42.888565063477 > 16.732177734375, 42.895431518555 16.725311279297, 42.892684936524 > 16.670379638672, 42.910537719727 16.656646728515, 42.896804809571 > 16.618194580078, 42.927017211915 16.658020019531, 42.95997619629 > 16.658020019531, 42.962722778321 16.603088378906, 43.001174926758 > 16.658020019531, 43.008041381837 16.857147216797, 42.979202270508 > 17.052154541015, 42.984695434571". > > As discussed earlier, the first and last pairs are identical. > > I could write this out long-hand in Microdata or RDFa Lite, but the > basic model is the key concern. I think we're getting somewhere, > thanks for your help! > > Nearby in the Web, Wikipedia has pages for both island and city, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kor%C4%8Dula and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kor%C4%8Dula_(town)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kor%C4%8Dula_%28town%29> > > It's also btw the alleged-birthplace-of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo but let's get the basics > working first :) > > cheers, > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > Geowanking@geowanking.org > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > -- Sean Gillies
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