hi Michele, MLO is a very first draft of a location ontology. we should take a look into other ontologies to avoid to reinvent the wheel (there are plenty of alternatives!). The final goal is of course to store location information to help those locatio-aware applications.
I'll check yout suggestion and more feedback (here or as patches) is very welcome. thanks, ivan On 10/26/09, Michele Tameni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking at mlo ontology, and i think that something is missing. > > For example how i can specify the type of a GeoPoint or a PointOfInterest. > I mean that sometime is important to distinguish between hotel, menument or > whatever. > > geonames.org already has an ontology [1] that allow classification using two > level of detail, and it's based gsa [2] classification method. > > The above ontology also describe some other useful concept like > AlternateName [Locatization of the name of the point], OfficialName and > other more geo-oriented like InCountry, nearby, neighbour etc. > > What you think about this? IMHO could be an interesting addition for > location-aware application in maemo. > Michele > > > [1] http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ > [2] http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp > -- > michele tameni > _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
