[Geowanking] [Fwd: [Ann] LinkedGeoData.org]

[Sean Gillies]

It's curious how alien the concept of geographic entities identified  
by URIs is to GIS folks. See Adena Schutzberg (not a programmer, but  
no dummy) scramble to make sense of it:
http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/6086-Linked-Geodata-OSM-Gets-Linkable.html 
. For all the talk of "GeoWeb" in GIS, we still don't quite get the web.

Sean

On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Mike Liebhold wrote:

> FYI:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[Ann] LinkedGeoData.org
> Resent-From: 	public-lod at w3.org
> Date: 	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:15:30 -0400
> From: 	Sören Auer <auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
> Organization: 	University of Leipzig
> To: 	SW-forum <semantic-web at w3.org>, Linking Open Data <public-lod at w3.org 
> >, okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>, linked-geo-data at googlegroups.com
>
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> On behalf of the AKSW research group [1] I'm pleased to announce the  
> first public version of the LinkedGeoData.org datasets and services.
>
> LinkedGeoData is a comprehensive dataset derived from the  
> OpenStreetMap database covering RDF descriptions of more than 350  
> million spatial features (i.e. nodes, ways, relations).
>
> LinkedGeoData currently comprises RDF dumps, Linked Data and REST  
> interfaces, links to DBpedia as well as a prototypical user  
> interface for linked-geo-data browsing and authoring.
>
> More information can be found at: <http://linkedgeodata.org>
>
> Best,
>
> Sören Auer
>
>
> [1] http://aksw.org
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Sören Auer, AKSW/Computer Science Dept., University of Leipzig
> http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer,  Skype: soerenauer
>
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