[ckan-discuss] Next steps on datacatalogs.org?

[Richard Cyganiak]

On 3 Oct 2011, at 19:55, Martin Alvarez-Espinar wrote:
> The most complete visualization (a browser) is at:
> http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/

Right – thanks.

> We only need coordinates, but this can be obtained from a web service,
> as you said. As usual, the problem is ambiguity of naming (i.e.,
> Berlin is a city, but also a state).

(In the case of Berlin, there is no ambiguity as city and state have the same geographic extent.)

> It's easy to represent a point on a map, but not the spatial coverage.

I believe that the Google Maps geocoding API also provides extents for geographic features. I might be wrong.

Best,
Richard