[Geowanking] semweb spatial representations

Charles McCathieNevile charles at w3.org
Tue Oct 19 14:52:08 PDT 2004


When you think that swoogle does a relatively brain-dead search on the string
that is the URI itself, rather than labels, titles, etc (as I think based on
what I can figure out) this becomes even more impressive.

Cheers

Chaals

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Mike Liebhold wrote:

>Here's an interesting indication of  how many representations there may
>be, so far, for geographic coordinates:
>
> I did a few searches for related items on http://swoogle.org/ - the the
>new semweb metadata search engine:
>
> 887 results for _location_   properties or classes
>
>487 results for _place_   properties or classes
>
>273 results for _spatial_   properties or classes
>
>144 results for _latitude_   properties or classes
>
>127 results for _coordinates_   properties or classes
>
>71  results for _elevation_   properties or classes
>
>
>try it yourself. I realize there's lots of duplication and overlap
>here... but these are still astounding numbers...
>
>-  mike
>
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