We were working in the last weeks on bringing geo data derived from the marvelous OpenStreetMap project to the data web. This work in progress is still far from being finished, however, we would like to share some first preliminary results:
- A vast amount of point-of-interest descriptions was extracted from OSM and published as Linked Data at http://linkedgeodata.org
- The Linked Geo Data browser and editor (available at http://linkedgeodata.org/browser) is a facet-based browser for geo content, which uses an OLAP inspired hypercube for quickly retrieving aggregated information about any user selected area on earth.
Further information can be also found in our AKSW project description.
January 19, 2009 - 3:23 pm
The license attached to the triples claims to be by-3.0, but OSM data is licensed By-SA-2.0. Dropping the SA license is a violation of the requirements of SA.
February 11, 2009 - 3:49 pm
Christoper, thanks for pointing this out. So far, LinkedGeoData.org is in an early stage and I missed to adopt the default Triplify configuration with regard to the licensing. This is now done! I also added the following attribution: “This data is derived from information collected by the OpenStreetMap project (http://www.openstreetmap.org).” Let us know if you have any further suggestions.