Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 9/9/11 11:08 AM, Leigh Dodds wrote: As I've said (repeatedly!) there's no authentication around any of Linked Data. That might be an option for publishers in future, but not during the beta and not for any of the open datasets which we've published currently. API keys are only required for th

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi Kingsley, On 9 September 2011 15:20, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 9/9/11 8:58 AM, Leigh Dodds wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> As well as the others already mentioned there's also Yahoo Geoplanet: >> >> http://beta.kasabi.com/dataset/yahoo-geoplanet >> >> This has multi-lingual labels and is cross-linked

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Patrick Durusau
Kingsley, On 09/09/2011 10:20 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 9/9/11 8:58 AM, Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, As well as the others already mentioned there's also Yahoo Geoplanet: http://beta.kasabi.com/dataset/yahoo-geoplanet This has multi-lingual labels and is cross-linked to the Ordnance Survey dat

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 9/9/11 8:58 AM, Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, As well as the others already mentioned there's also Yahoo Geoplanet: http://beta.kasabi.com/dataset/yahoo-geoplanet This has multi-lingual labels and is cross-linked to the Ordnance Survey data, Dbpedia, but that could be improved. As for a list, the

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, As well as the others already mentioned there's also Yahoo Geoplanet: http://beta.kasabi.com/dataset/yahoo-geoplanet This has multi-lingual labels and is cross-linked to the Ordnance Survey data, Dbpedia, but that could be improved. As for a list, there are currently 34 geography related da

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 9/9/11 5:57 AM, Andreas Harth wrote: Scott, On 09/08/2011 04:38 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote: It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I think that I saw one mentioned here in the last few months. Are th

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Wilton
Hi Scott http://www.geonames.org is a good source of global Geospatial RDF linked data - it is a very large global dataset For the UK: http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk is a good option freebase also has a large global geospatial dataset cheers Paul On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:38 PM, M. Scott Ma

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Barry Norton
How about Geonames, Ordnance Survey (UK), LinkedGeoData and GeoLinkedData? Barry On 08.09.2011 15:38, M. Scott Marshall wrote: It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I think that I saw one mentioned her

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Elena Montiel Ponsoda
Hi Scott, In the context of GeoLinkedData initiative, the Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) at UPM is publishing geospatial information of Spain [1]. This data set has labels in Spanish, English, and in Basque, Galician and Catalan, when appropriate. These are official languages in some regions

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-09 Thread Andreas Harth
Scott, On 09/08/2011 04:38 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote: It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I think that I saw one mentioned here in the last few months. Are there alternatives that are possible more f

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-08 Thread Mike Liebhold
I am cross posting this here to the geowanking list where people are working in overlapping spatial and semantic webs: On 9/8/11 7:38 AM, M. Scott Marshall wrote: It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-08 Thread Gannon Dick
Sets for the UK Public Sector" recommendations can be followed (INSPIRE Theme codes, etc.) even though the URI syntax is a bit different. --Gannon [1] http://www.rustprivacy.org/sun/spookville/shp/CA.xml --- On Thu, 9/8/11, Sarven Capadisli wrote: > From: Sarven Capadisli > Subject:

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-08 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi all 2011/9/8 Sarven Capadisli > Here is a nice: > > owl:sameAs > . > A nice abuse of owl:sameAs indeed :) http://sws.geonames.org/6077244/ is Montréal *Post Office* since its feature code is S.PO, called simply "Montré

Re: Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-08 Thread Sarven Capadisli
Here is a nice: owl:sameAs . http://sws.geonames.org/6077244/ doesn't provide more labels however. -Sarven On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 15:49 +0100, Paul Wilton wrote: > Hi Scott > http://www.geonames.org is a good source of glo

Question: Authoritative URIs for Geo locations? Multi-lingual labels?

2011-09-08 Thread M. Scott Marshall
It seems that dbpedia is a de facto source of URIs for geographical place names. I would expect to find a more specialized source. I think that I saw one mentioned here in the last few months. Are there alternatives that are possible more fine-grained or designed specifically for geo data? With mul