I've organized a session with Dave Kolas at MIT/ W3C [1] earlier this
year and Parliament looks indeed great, it already uses PostGIS for
the spatial queries. I am not sure how Parliament relates to the Jena
API though.

[1] http://www.vimeo.com/23850413


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Rob Battle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As Dave mentioned, Parliament [1] supports geospatial and temporal indexing.  
> We index data using the geo-owl ontologies [2] for geospatial data and OWL 
> time [3] for temporal data (although only ProperIntervals and 
> DateTimeIntervals are supported, not DateTimeInstants).  The spatial index 
> supports predicates corresponding to RCC-8 and OGC simple features as 
> property functions and can use PostGIS or a memory-mapped r-tree as an index.
>
> If you are interested, Parliament also has preliminary support for the 
> proposed OGC GeoSPARQL [4] standard for geospatial queries over RDF (note 
> that this is different from http://www.geosparql.org).
> We also have an unpublished article [5] which describes GeoSPARQL, evaluates 
> some existing research/implementations in the geospatial semantic web, and 
> describes the GeoSPARQL implementation in Parliament.
>
> The Parliament geosparql branch is located at [6]
>
> -rob
>
> [1] http://parliament.semwebcentral.org
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo/#owl
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/
> [4] http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=44722
> [5] 
> http://semwebcentral.org/scm/viewvc.php/*checkout*/branches/geosparql/paper/swjarticle.pdf?root=parliament
> [6] https://projects.semwebcentral.org/svn/parliament/branches/geosparql  
> (username/password anonsvn)
>
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote:
>
>> There is also Parliament [1] which offers both geospatial and temporal
>> indexing graphs.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> [1] http://parliament.semwebcentral.org/
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 13:08 +0100, Paolo Castagna wrote:
>>> Hi Alex,
>>> great to hear that, you are welcome.
>>>
>>> Something similar using Lucene Spatial capabilities instead of
>>> a proper GIS is here (it's just a less than two days hack):
>>> https://github.com/castagna/GeoARQ
>>>
>>> I was planning to post something along the lines of "making
>>> easier to plug LARQ or similar into ARQ", but unfortunately I do
>>> not a good idea (yet).
>>>
>>> It would be good to enable third parties to add their own property
>>> functions (that's possible) which use custom indexes and need to
>>> update those indexes as triples/quads are added/removed to the
>>> underlying RDF store.
>>>
>>> More on this later, in the meantime: welcome.
>>>
>>> Paolo
>>>
>>> Alexander Dutton wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> We've currently got a lot of (simple) geospatial data in
>>>> <http://data.clarosnet.org/> (served behind the scenes by Fuseki).
>>>>
>>>> We'd like to do some geospatial indexing magic, and were wondering
>>>> about writing something a bit like LARQ that will pull out things like
>>>> geo:Points and WKT literals, place them in a PostGIS-flavoured DB, and
>>>> then implements something like GeoSPARQL (<http://geosparql.org/>).
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone started doing this or something similar? I'm happy to give
>>>> it a go and I'm sure my employer would be happy to contribute it back
>>>> to Jena and the ASF. My plan was to go through the LARQ codebase to
>>>> work out how it hooks itself in, and use that as a model.
>>>>
>>>> Yours,
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>> Alexander Dutton
>>>> Metamorphoses Project Developer, Claros
>>>> Oxford University Computing Services, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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