Re: [Tracker] Maemo Location Ontology

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>]

hi Michele,

 MLO is a very first draft of a location ontology. we should take a
look into other ontologies to avoid to reinvent the wheel (there are
plenty of alternatives!). The final goal is of course to store
location information to help those locatio-aware applications.

 I'll check yout suggestion and more feedback (here or as patches) is
very welcome.

 thanks,

ivan

On 10/26/09, Michele Tameni <michele amdplanet it> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking at mlo ontology, and i think that something is missing.
>
> For example how i can specify the type of a GeoPoint or a PointOfInterest.
> I mean that sometime is important to distinguish between hotel, menument or
> whatever.
>
> geonames.org already has an ontology [1] that allow classification using two
> level of detail, and it's based gsa [2] classification method.
>
> The above ontology also describe some other useful concept like
> AlternateName [Locatization of the name of the point], OfficialName and
> other more geo-oriented like InCountry, nearby, neighbour etc.
>
> What you think about this? IMHO  could be an interesting addition for
> location-aware application in maemo.
> Michele
>
>
> [1] http://www.geonames.org/ontology/
> [2] http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
> --
> michele tameni