[topicmapmail] Supporting Gazetteers

[Martin Stitt]

You might find this interesting:

  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/geolang/



On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jason Cupp wrote:

> In my line of work a gazetteer is basically a thesaurus of geographic names
> with extra-attributes of geographic location (lat, lon) it some coordinate
> system.
> Has there been any discussion of using a geographically based subject
> indicators for topicmaps?
> 
> Some examples of gazetteers:
> http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html
> http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/index.htm
> http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/faq.html
> _______________________________________________
> topicmapmail mailing list
> topicmapmail@infoloom.com
> http://www.infoloom.com/mailman/listinfo/topicmapmail
>