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HistoryThe GeoNames Ontology makes it possible to add geospatial semantic information to the Word Wide Web. All over 6.2 million geonames toponyms now have a unique URL with a corresponding RDF web service. Other services describe the relation between toponyms.
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[ontologically represented] ★★★★★ "Linked to other data to provide context."★★★★ "Uses URIs to identify things, so that people can link to it."★★★ "Uses non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)."★★ "Available as structured data (eg. Excel instead of a scanned table)."★ "Available under an open license."
RDF Schema
http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ontology_v2.1.rdf [downloaded 22 times]
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http://download.geonames.org/all-geonames-rdf.zip [downloaded 17 times]
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[ontologically represented] ★★★★★ "Linked to other data to provide context."★★★★ "Uses URIs to identify things, so that people can link to it."★★★ "Uses non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)."★★ "Available as structured data (eg. Excel instead of a scanned table)."★ "Available under an open license."
Example (RDF/XML)
http://sws.geonames.org/3020251/about.rdf [downloaded 32 times]
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Source | http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ |
| Author | Bernard Vatant |
| Maintainer | Maintainer not given |
| Version | 2010-06 (2.1) |
| namespace | http://sws.geonames.org/ |
| shortname | GeoNames |
| triples | 93896732 |
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