Comments on: Linking your Geonames place from your FOAF file http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file Richard Cyganiak's Weblog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:27:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Cornelius http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-254673 Cornelius Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:08:31 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-254673 <p>"I’m not perfectly happy with using foaf:based_near, because I’m not based near Berlin, dammit, I’m based right in the middle of it. Is there a more appropriate and reasonably well-established property?" </p> <p>Hehe, an old entry but at least I can answer your question with yes, there is a better way and you already know it. Actually the Tagcrumbs.com RDF provides a linkage from a random place to its Geonames ID. Be at least a bit proud to live in the city of Berlin (or Galway).</p> <p>Cornelius.</p> “I’m not perfectly happy with using foaf:based_near, because I’m not based near Berlin, dammit, I’m based right in the middle of it. Is there a more appropriate and reasonably well-established property?”

Hehe, an old entry but at least I can answer your question with yes, there is a better way and you already know it. Actually the Tagcrumbs.com RDF provides a linkage from a random place to its Geonames ID. Be at least a bit proud to live in the city of Berlin (or Galway).

Cornelius.

]]> By: dowhatimean.net » Linking your Geonames place from your FOAF file http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-76762 dowhatimean.net » Linking your Geonames place from your FOAF file Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:43:24 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-76762 <p>[...] http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file Tags: foaf, geonames(del.icio.us history) [...]</p> [...] http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file Tags: foaf, geonames(del.icio.us history) [...]

]]> By: Semantic Web : Concept vs Document « Geonames http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-12220 Semantic Web : Concept vs Document « Geonames Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:29:55 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-12220 <p>[...] With feedback and help from the blogosphere we have updated the geonames ontology and fixed some flaws in the corresponding web service. The ontology now includes linked data such as contains (administrative divisions), neighbours (for features with a boundary) or nearby features. The web service is using two URIs to clearly distinguish between Concept (the thing as is) and Document (the document about it). [...]</p> [...] With feedback and help from the blogosphere we have updated the geonames ontology and fixed some flaws in the corresponding web service. The ontology now includes linked data such as contains (administrative divisions), neighbours (for features with a boundary) or nearby features. The web service is using two URIs to clearly distinguish between Concept (the thing as is) and Document (the document about it). [...]

]]> By: Semantic Web « Geonames http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-11923 Semantic Web « Geonames Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:58:46 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2006/10/linking-your-geonames-place-from-your-foaf-file#comment-11923 <p>[...] Thanks to the Geonames Ontology, contributed by Bernard Vatant, all geonames features now have a RDF description for the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web aims to bring structure to the Web and make its content easily readable by machines. The semantic web is sometimes referred to as Web3.0. The balloon on the geonames map display has received two new menus for ‘perma link’ and ’semantic web rdf’. Harry Chen has a good introduction to the Geonames Ontology on the Geospatial Semantic Web Blog. Richard Cyganiak writes in his blog “This is an excellent example of a Semantic Web site done right. Well, almost right …” and in an other posting he describes how to use the Semantic Web URI of a geonames feature with a FOAF file : Now, when I load my URI in Tabulator, it lets me navigate from my profile up the geographical hierarchy from the city of Berlin to the federal state of Berlin to the country of Germany to the continent of Europe. Posted by marc Filed in Uncategorized [...]</p> [...] Thanks to the Geonames Ontology, contributed by Bernard Vatant, all geonames features now have a RDF description for the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web aims to bring structure to the Web and make its content easily readable by machines. The semantic web is sometimes referred to as Web3.0. The balloon on the geonames map display has received two new menus for ‘perma link’ and ’semantic web rdf’. Harry Chen has a good introduction to the Geonames Ontology on the Geospatial Semantic Web Blog. Richard Cyganiak writes in his blog “This is an excellent example of a Semantic Web site done right. Well, almost right …” and in an other posting he describes how to use the Semantic Web URI of a geonames feature with a FOAF file : Now, when I load my URI in Tabulator, it lets me navigate from my profile up the geographical hierarchy from the city of Berlin to the federal state of Berlin to the country of Germany to the continent of Europe. Posted by marc Filed in Uncategorized [...]

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