Linked GeoData
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The Linked Geo Data browser and editor (available at http://linkedgeodata.org/browser) is a facet-based browser for geo content, which uses an OLAP inspired hypercube for quickly retrieving aggregated information about any user selected area on earth from the OpenStreetMap database. It has been developed by the The Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW), hosted by the Department for Business-oriented Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig.
There is also a paper entitled LinkedGeoData: Adding a Spatial Dimension to the Web of Data with the following abstract: LinkedGeoData {
Adding a Spatial Dimension to the Web of DaLinkedGeoData {Adding a Spatial Dimension to the Web of Data
In order to employ the Web as a medium for data and information integration, comprehensive datasets and vocabularies are required as they enable the disambiguation and alignment of other data and information. Many real-life information integration and aggregation tasks are impossible without comprehensive background knowledge related to spatial features of the ways, structures and landscapes surrounding us. In this paper we contribute to the generation of a spatial dimension for the DataWeb by elaborating on how the collaboratively collected OpenStreetMap data can be transformed and represented adhering to the RDF data model, how this data can be interlinked with other spatial data sets, how it can be made accessible for machines according to the linked data paradigm and for humans by means of a faceted geo-data browser. It is particularly interesting as it may contribute to the beginnings of my Thesis where data is extracted from the OSM database to intelligently inform the basis for the urban response. The most clever feature is the ability to extract data based on certain simplified search parameters.  |
