[OSM-dev] GSoC: formalising knowledge in OSM

[Robert Vollmert]

On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:36, Radomír Černoch wrote:
> Since I am a student (doing AI, knowledge engineering specialism) I
> thought about the currently running GSoC 2009, in which OSM takes
> part. My idea, which I am proposing, is to build a taxonomy of map
> elements formalised in an ontology, which could formally define and
> classify them. I believe that such project could build a
> well-structured knowledge base aiding beginners to understand
> nitty-gritties of mapping, yet still useable for skilled users.

I don't have an opinion on whether this would be a good GSOC project,  
but here's some relevant wiki pages:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Machine-readable_Map_Feature_list
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Machine-readable_Map_Feature_list/OWL_Semantic_Wiki_and_more
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ck3d/Ontology_Proposal
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki


Cheers
Robert