[OSGeo-Discuss] Summary: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

2010-10-06 Thread Landon Blake
Thanks for all of the responses. After some careful consideration of the responses I received I realize the challenges of trying to get real world features into the type of hierarchy I derive. I'm going to check out the system Geonames is using with RDFa. I think I might be able to use their

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

2010-10-06 Thread Bob Basques
Allen, You need the Centimeter stuff to realize that something moved over the two years. Besides, that just ends up being a re-projection in the end anyway. :c) bobb Allan Doyle afdo...@mit.edu wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Bob Basques wrote: All, I'm a long time address

[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

2010-10-06 Thread Geoff Hay
Hi The knowledge you are trying to encode should be represented as associations between individuals (this place contains that place etc) and concepts (city, park, post office delivery area, etc) (as in OWL) rather than a URI scheme (see Geonames). The basic idea is to represent places in a way

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

2010-10-06 Thread Geoff Hay
Hi Yes it's a blatent simplification, although... semantics... Interesting the association between truth and space, and then there's time regards Geoff From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of P Kishor