[Geowanking] Critical Theory

[Eric Wolf]

>
> If we had a metamodel and the appropriate ontologies for "tagging" the raw
> data then we would have the basics for building a semantic geoweb - or am I
> being too simplistic?
>


Nail -> Head...

Except that the front end processing you suggest - through automated
generalization - doesn't quite work. See the discussion of "GIS Maps" on
James Fee's blog:

http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/06/09/that-looks-like-a-gis-map/

There is another process of semantic interpretation that occurs during
generalization. Using automated generalization routines results in maps that
lack semantic richness.

So a semantic geoweb would be good for more natural-language querying of
spatial information - but the display will be a simple graph without the
application of similar semantic principles to the visualization design
process.

-Eric
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