The Semantic Web and cartography

Interesting — I read on this blog about the Ordnance Survey, who apparently now have a database now composed of 40m meaningful objects rather than naive CAD drawings. Apparently they're working on the Semantic Web, too, and there's work underway into deriving meaningful inferences from the information: where does a mountain start and finish? what is a hospital, rather than just a group of buildings?. Fascinating, especially considering the mammoth amount of data they have to work with. I'd be interested in seeing their tools!

Posted at 2004-04-23 02:51:42 by Richard • Link to The Semantic Web a…

Damn you Macromedia

Despite my cautious respect for Flash, I'm not pleased at how the Flash updater I ran this morning appears to have silently killed all of my Safari windows without warning.

I exploit the general stability of my system to keep everything I'm working on in a tab somewhere — I've been able to recover several things from trawling my history, but some of it is older than my history file remembers, and has therefore been lost in the ether.

Bastards. Ever thought of telling me?

Posted at 2004-04-23 01:33:41 by Richard • Link to Damn you Macromedi…

The Gods do smile

Following on from yesterday's entry, I get a notice in the mail from one of my watched items:

I've started working on a simple coupling where a SAIL implementation also implements the org.semanticweb.owl.model.OWLOntology interface.

Sweet!

Of course, it doesn't actually make any of my decisions any easier…

Posted at 2004-04-23 01:21:39 by Richard • Link to The Gods do smile