[OSGeo-Discuss] Summary: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for all of the responses.

After some careful consideration of the responses I received I realize
the challenges of trying to get real world features into the type of
hierarchy I derive.

I'm going to check out the system Geonames is using with RDFa. I think I
might be able to use their technique for uniquely identifying places.

Thank you again for your help.

Landon
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On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Bob Basques wrote:

>  All,
> 
> I'm a long time address database creation/maintenance/re-creation
fiend myself.
> 
> I've also been working with the USNG (MGRS) gridding system the last
few years, and need to at least suggest the idea of 
> using a Gridding system to locate things.  This idea is not nbew, but
USNG usage has gained quite a bit of ground the 
> last couple of years across all level of government, with a large
emphasis placed on using it for disaster response.
> 
> Tying a placeName to a grid location that can describe things down to
the centimeter if needed and still stay unique as 
> a location is a very good thing.

Don't be too sure at the centimeter level.

"The average rate of motion across the San Andreas Fault Zone during the
past 3 million years is 56 mm/yr (2 in/yr). " --
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/facts.php

I like Chris Schmidt's quote: "The world is fuzzier than you realize".

	Allan


> 
> bobb
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/5/2010 8:52 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
>> The geonames ontology looks like it might work for me. I'll read it
over tomorrow.
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>> 
>> Landon
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:45 PM, "Ian Turton"<ijturton at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Christopher Schmidt
>>> <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>  wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:18:47PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>> "All attempts to construct simple ontologies end up reinventing
RDF" . ?
>>>> That was actually my first thought when I saw this: "Hey look,
>>>> someone else reinventing RDFa!" :)
>>>> 
>>>> Seriously, I say this with a bit of knowledge; I mean, after all,
>>>> I sort of work on making places searchable on maps. For a company
>>>> with a pretty big set of data about the hierarchy of the world.
>>>> It's a lot fuzzier than you think :)
>>>> 
>>>> Also, Landon, I do highly recommend looking into RDF --
specifically,
>>>> RDFa -- because I think it's heading in a very similar direction to
>>>> what you're describing, without the need for some
all-world-hierarchy
>>>> to tie it to, which might actually help you get a bit further.
>>> 
>>> You might want to look at http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ which
RDFs
>>> the GeoNames database.
>>> 
>>> Ian
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