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 _______________________________________________ topicmapmail mailing list [email protected] http://www.infoloom.com/mailman/listinfo/topicmapmail