Re: zip code sets was: Re: Semantic Bleachers: was Re: Afghanistan War Diary as topic map in Maiana

Patrick Durusau <patrick-Q/[email protected]>
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Lars,

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 21:33 +0100, Lars Heuer wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> [...]
> > Yes, I got that part but my concern was that "Austin, Texas" actually
> > has a set of zip codes associated with it.
> 
> I see. Well, Austin, Texas is actually not very well mapped to RDF.
> Let's take "Bremen" :)
> 
> The subject <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bremen> provides ZIP codes
> (postal codes) and geo:lat/geo:long literals. We're free to translate
> that into subjects and make a better job better than DBpedia.
> 
> I don't suggest a 1:1 mapping of DBpedia to Topic Maps. People should
> see an additional value.
> 

Sure, we have already agreed on that.

> A 1:1 mapping (i.e. treating DBpedia's literals as occurrences) may be
> good enough for the initial translation, though.
> 
> Yes, I said, dead ends are acceptable. ;)
> 

That too!

Question: On postal code for Bremen, does "28001–28779" indicate a range
or simply a postal code that has a hypen?

The value is "string," and there was no indication of how to process
that information. 

I don't know if all cases where zip codes are used in the US if a town
has a contiguous range of zip codes assigned. 

Hope you are having a great evening!

Patrick
> [...]
> > Or does DBpedia provide sets of zip codes with URIs for referencing
> > them? 
> 
> I am not aware of such a data set.
> 
> Best regards,
> Lars
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