[OSM-talk] OSM and Linked Data, and W3C, etc ...

[Tim Berners-Lee]

(Changing the subject line)

The map really needs a SPARQL server (easy), and cross-linking to URIs  
in dbpedia or geonames (which are themselves alreday cross-linked)   
would be a good idea (but more work).

 From outside it looks as though the OSM XML format and API are  
developing in the OSM community in a reasonable way.  What sort of  
help do you think OSM will need? Money to run servers if the load  
increases?  An existing standards org with facilities and process for  
the API and the XML format? What was it you had in mind?

timbl


On 2009-01 -09, at 19:01, Peter Miller wrote:
> [..]
> . I know that you are personally keen on a free geographic web to  
> support a semantic web and that is of course what OSM is busy  
> collecting. If the subtext of your post is that W3 is interested in  
> OSM and the standards behind it then we are all ears. Personally I  
> think 2009 will be a breakthrough year for the project and we are  
> going to need all the help we can get to deal with the expectations  
> that will be raised.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Peter Miller
>

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