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Lars Heuer <[email protected]>
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Hi Patrick, [...] > Question: On postal code for Bremen, does "28001–28779" indicate a range > or simply a postal code that has a hypen? It's a range. > The value is "string," and there was no indication of how to process > that information. If you know that Wikipedia/DBpedia keeps zip/postal codes as a range you can split the postal codes at "," (since postal codes are not continuous) and infer that "-" implies a range. That goes a bit beyond the simplicity I assumed, of course. Another problem: Bremerhaven is a part of the state of Bremen but is not the part of the town Bremen. I don't know if this is covered by DBpedia. Wikipedia/DBpedia does a good job, but you may infer much more information. And even if we treat postal codes right, we'd get the feedback that XY is treated wrong in our mapping. :) But we can adjust our mapping. Best regards, Lars -- Semagia <http://www.semagia.com> <http://www.topicmaps.de/mailinglist/> German Topic Maps mailing list <http://tinytim.sourceforge.net/> Open Source Topic Maps engine <http://mappa.semagia.com/> Mappa - Python Topic Maps engine _______________________________________________ topicmapmail mailing list [email protected] http://www.infoloom.com/mailman/listinfo/topicmapmail