[open-geodata] Query API for Open Data - including GeoNames

[Julius Chrobak]

Great links. Thanks! Particularly the GeoPackage one. We'll keep it in mind. 

However, we are not looking at introducing new formats. We aim to take various data sets and provide a unified query interface on top of it. We can support nested structures as well as simple tabular data (such as GeoNames). In case of the geographical structures the GeoJSON format seems like a good option, doesn't it?

Cheers,
Julius

On Feb 25, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Lance McKee wrote:

Be sure you align with:

-- Emerging GeoPackage standard from OGC: http://www.ogcnetwork.net/geopackage

-- GeoSciML: http://www.geosciml.org/ 

-- OGC Sensor Web for Internet of Things activity: http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/sweiotswg .

The last thing Open Science needs is technology stovepipes! (Longer rant and ramble here: http://www.earthzine.org/2011/03/30/standards-enable-open-geoscience-opportunities/.)

Lance








On Feb 25, 2013, at 3:19 AM, Julius Chrobak wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your support!
> 
> We've been looking at those resources already and they are in our pipeline. I'll keep you all posted on our progress
> and if anyone would like to use the mingle.io just drop me an email! Shortly, we're going to publish the API docs and
> allow full integration with apps.
> 
> On Feb 24, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Maurizio Napolitano wrote:
> 
> On 22/02/2013 14:57, Julius Chrobak wrote:
>> a new service for developers which includes the popular GeoNames database - https://mingle.io
> 
> Nice!
> Short suggestion:
> maybe you can integrate your service with this API
> http://wikilocation.org
> This offers all the pages with coordinates inside wikipedia
> At the end of this page you can find also the data dumps
> http://wikilocation.org/documentation/
> 
> Geonames offers also some API related to wikipedia
> http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia-webservice.html#findNearbyWikipedia
> 
> last suggestion:
> openstreetmap api
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API
> 
> Again congratulations for you nice application!
> 
> 
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