ontology INDEX MUDLONDON MUDENGLAND TECHDETAILS CONTACT NEWS LINKS TALKS PLANS
this is my own model england; i feel like queen victoria.
it'll soon be moving to uk.space.frot.org with a different interface; so this information is a little outdated; sorry!
it is based on a 14000+ entry file of geographical data publically available from a .mil website, featuring all named settlements and a lot of landscape and historic features. that model is augmented with information from the knowhere collaborative guide site.
there is a basic RESTful interface to mudengland on space.frot.org. for any given named place, e.g. Milton Keynes, request http://space.frot.org/a_place/Milton_Keynes. that url returns a page of RDF/XML-expressed metainformation about that place. also you can search for particular names, eg http://space.frot.org/find_place/?name=Hole.
the england model is less interesting than the london one: it doesn't have the interactive and creative element, and it doesn't express the connections between places in the same way. it is dense, though, and contains about 20,000 things which aren't towns and villages, but environmental and historical features.
there is a OWL ontology which was extrapolated from several online sources provided detailed information about the obscure codes in GIS format data the ontology, in this sense, provides knowledge about knowledge, inferring statements about the nature of things from the nature of things.
it is something like an object-oriented class inheritance tree, allowing for logical constraints and linguistic, semantic statements about spaces. so, a Railway Station and a Tube Station are both types of Public Transport, and also Buildings. a Railway Station must have at least one Railway Line running though it. If a space is a Pub, then it must have the properties 'Serves Alcohol' and 'is Publically Accessible'.
daml ontology based on GEONET data and an extended, more granular version of that ontology in OWL which is used for this data.