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

[Martin Alvarez-Espinar]

Hi Richard,

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

Upps... Bad example :-) Another one more familiar to me: 'Barcelona'
as city [1] and 'Barcelona' as province [2]. Although the city is the
capital (it may be used to represent the marker on the map) the
province covers a large territory. But, the most important is that
both, the city and the province have different governments. This is
why we used Geonames to represent univocal spatial references.

The form to add new catalogs uses a Geonames-based service which may
be used to enrich the input in datacatalogs.org. I'm talking about the
field 'Location" in the form [3], which supports auto-completion.

Best regards,

Martin

[1] http://www.geonames.org/3128760/
[2] http://www.geonames.org/3128759/
[3] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/manage/new