Comments on: Finding Rahoon

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:46:05 +0000

Isn’t the point of Wikipedia that you can create one?

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:44:13 +0000

Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesnâ€™t have an article for Rahoon

Isn't the point of Wikipedia that you can create one?

By: Peyman

Peyman — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:59:56 +0000

Why you dont invent your own URI? :) Anyway, I was in Rahoon for 10 months. It is far from DERI.

By: Richard Cyganiak

Richard Cyganiak — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:54:28 +0000

John: Looking forward to meeting you next week. Keep the reports from Busan coming! The URI you gave is a nice web page about Rahoon, but not usable as an identifier for the locality (a web page is not a geographic place). I added a foaf:page link from my blank node to the page.

Bernhard: You are right, but I don't know much about the place and don't want to clutter Wikipedia with unnecessary stubs.

Bernard: Cool! I moved the place a few meters eastward to coincide with the location given in the Galway city map. Also assigned Galway County as the administrative area. Rahoon is, legally speaking, a â€œcivil parishâ€.

By: Bernard Vatant

Bernard Vatant — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:34:30 +0000

Well, seems something got wrong in geonames data base http://www.geonames.org/6619440/rahoon.html works OK But http://sws.geonames.org/6619440/ is ‘unknown record’ … will investigate.

By: Bernard Vatant

Bernard Vatant — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:01:03 +0000

Hi Richard

If it’s not in geonames, just add it! There is a wiki interface in geonames just for that kind of situation. Juts made it for you : http://sws.geonames.org/6619440/ I guess “section of populated place” is the right type for Rahoon. If it’s not you can change it, and you can move the pin too, if it’s not in the right place. I put it close to Rahoon House, my best guess, but you will know better.

By: Bernhard Schandl

Bernhard Schandl — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:20:59 +0000

Why not just create an appropriate article in Wikipedia? I guess this would help some other people, too.

By: John Breslin

John Breslin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:58:17 +0000

Welcome to DERI Richard, sorry I won’t meet you until next week.

How about http://www.galway.net/directory/locality-list.jsp?locality=galway.galwaycity.rahoon

Talk soon!

John.

By: Richard Cyganiak

Richard Cyganiak — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:23:12 +0000

Brendan: The area in question might be ill-defined, but it certainly has a name, and the locals use it without any trouble. It's just that no one has bothered to put that name on the Semantic Web yet.

Knowing I live in Rahoon is immediately useful to people who know Galway. Knowing I live within 500m of 53.27702/9.09019 is useless unless you bring quite a bit of machinery, and that machinery is simply not available in today's Semantic Web clients.

By: Brendan Taylor

Brendan Taylor — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:59:28 +0000

IMO some things (eg. a rather ill-defined “area”) don’t have names, and it doesn’t make sense to give them one.

If someone wants to say they live in the same area as you, it makes more sense to use GeoOnion or put down their coordinates and let processors decide what to do with that data.