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Thursday, March 16, 2006
RDF ontologies for spatial annotation

location based services


Spatial ontologies describe the metadata model behind a world model. They might state that a River is a kind of Body of Water is a kind of Spatial Feature. Ontologies can be used for machine reasoning, and for automatically mapping the features of one metadata model to another. (for example a Straat or Calle is equivalent to Street).

Locative Packets are an RDF recipe, co-developed for spin-offs from this work, for representing spatially- and temporally- annotated hypermedia with a set of recommended vocabularies.

You could send XML data about features using the OGC Web Feature Service. Ideally RDF can provide a bridge between, and non-geospatial augmentation of, these services.

original spacenamespace ontology - derived from GeoNet data for the UK, with some additions over the course of building mudlondon

geo Ontologies at mindswap.
RDF 2d geometry
NASA spatial ontologies
spatial vocabulary from CYC
posted by voltzman at Thursday, March 16, 2006

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