Archive for 'Semantics' category

Similarity-Blog

Saturday, 9. September 2006

For those of you dealing with semantic interoperability in the geospatial domain, similarity measurement is certainly one of the most important research topics. The Similarity-Blog provides interesting thoughts and ideas plus a pretty comprehensive overview of literature in that field (most of the references with direct links to the PDFs), so it is definitely worth […]

GeoMarkup: Use OWL to annotate your maps?

Tuesday, 18. April 2006

Some posts ago Carsten was wondering about the missing proposals for a standardized way for map annotations. Here is a suggestion to utilize ontologies to add these annotations. Sounds like a great idea, Ontologies (written in OWL in this case) do not constrain you to specific properties. If you like, you are able to enrich […]