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

[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 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 multi-lingual labels? Perhaps somebody
> has kept track of the options on a website?
>
> -Scott
>