[OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

[Raj Singh]

I do follow the draft W3C spec in terms of the data model and XML encoding. We never got to the JSON and RDF encodings as the effort stalled in W3C. 

In OGC we're starting a group to create a standard for the data model, XML and JSON encoding. That list will be private to OGC members as it will be a SWG. We'll keep people updated here as well. 

The RDF and Microdata work is going to continue in a W3C community group:
http://www.w3.org/community/places/
We can talk semantics there!

I don't know how big the database dump will be. Hopefully I can get that posted in a day or two.

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Raj



On Jan 23, at 6:06 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at csd.uoc.gr> wrote:

> Hi Raj,
> 
> thanks for the prompt reply!
> if you can send me a postgres/postgis dump, this would be extremely useful! (thanks!).
> By the way, (and this is the main reason that I address it to the list, too) do you plan to follow/adapt the corresponding W3C recommendation or do you already do that?
> If not and if you need some involvement for the semantic part I would also be happy to participate.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dimitris
> 
> 
> 
> Raj Singh wrote:
>> Hi Dimitris. I'm the host/developer of OpenPOIs from OGC. Right now OpenPOIs is an aggregation of Geonames and DBPedia information. I'll soon be adding OpenStreetMap POIs to the mix, but that won't be complete for a few months. I'm also experimenting with a write API that will allow content providers to add to the database. That should be ready in a few weeks. I'd be happy to get you a postgresql/postgis database dump at any time if that would be useful.
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>> Raj Singh
>> raj at rajsingh.org
>> http://www.rajsingh.org/
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>> On Jan 22, at 11:56 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at csd.uoc.gr> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I am looking for a points of interest database (regardless of format, I use database in a loose term here) that is licensed under one of the open source/data/creative commons licenses.
>>> I know of course about open street maps and their layer of POIs and the one from OGC (http://openpoidb.ogcnetwork.net/).
>>> Is there anything else available out there? :)
>>> 
>>> Many thanks in advance for the help and I do apologize since I am sure that this is a recurring question,
>>> 
>>> Dimitris
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