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

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

2010-10-06 Thread Geoff Hay
[punk.k...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:14 a.m. To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Geoff Hay geoffrey@otago.ac.nz wrote: Hi The knowledge you are trying to encode should be represented

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

2010-10-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:03:14PM -0700, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: ...it would be easy to determine what the URL for... Alas, it is not clear to me that, even within the US, there is a universally recognized canonicalization of the place name hierarchy, much less the names themselves.

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

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Ramsey
All attempts to construct simple ontologies end up reinventing RDF .. ? 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

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

2010-10-05 Thread Landon Blake
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:12 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:03:14PM -0700, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: ...it would be easy

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

2010-10-05 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:19 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs All attempts to construct simple ontologies end up reinventing RDF

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

2010-10-05 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: could be good for 80% of the world. I wouldn’t go that far... perhaps for 20% of the world, maybe perhaps. I personally know at least a couple of fairly large swaths of this world where no such (or any) structure would fly.

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

2010-10-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell
-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:12 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Representing

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

2010-10-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2010-10-05, at 5:32 PM, P Kishor wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Landon Blake lbl...@ksninc.com wrote: could be good for 80% of the world. I wouldn’t go that far... perhaps for 20% of the world, maybe perhaps. I personally know at least a couple of fairly large swaths of this

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

2010-10-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
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,

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

2010-10-05 Thread Landon Blake
Chris, I'll look into rdfa. Thanks for the suggestion. Landon Sent from my iPhone On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission

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

2010-10-05 Thread Ian Turton
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

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

2010-10-05 Thread Landon Blake
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