[ckan-discuss] Geographic Metadata

Jo Walsh jo.walsh at ed.ac.uk
Mon May 23 13:13:16 BST 2011


> My starting work was using geonames but also thought about unlock
> (unlock delivers geojson while geonames does not seem to ...)
>
>> * location-text: (e.g. Durham, United Kingdom)
>> * location:<geojson representation>

See also this blog post about using "source identifiers" to reconstruct 
links to geonames / OS Open Data linked data sources...

http://unlock.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2010/11/29/using-source-identifiers-to-link-data/

We should probably be doing this in the webservice - can add to the todo 
list - plus any other wishes that would make it better for CKAN.

-- 
Jo Walsh

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