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GeoNames

GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005.

Semantic Web integration, Database and web services & Accuracy and improvements

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Database and web services

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Accuracy and improvements

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Wiki interface

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Database and web services

Wiki interface

Semantic Web integration

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GeoNames

Nodes30
Edges29
Triples47
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.066667
Components1

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GeoNames

Top relations

related to Further reading · 17
GeoNames → Ahlers, Assessment, Cite, CiteSeerX, Davood, Dirk, Gazetteer, Geographical Scoping, GIR Workshop, Improving, PDF, Proceedings, Rafiei, Sanket Kumar, Singh, Strategies, Web Conference
related to Semantic Web integration · 12
GeoNames → DBpedia, Each GeoNames, HTML, RDF, RDF Linked Data, SKOS, This, This URI, Through Wikipedia, URI, URL, Web Ontology Language
related to Accuracy and improvements · 7
GeoNames → Ahlers, As, Computing, Manually, Rafiei, Singh, The
related to Database and web services · 7
GeoNames → All, Beyond, The GeoNames, Those, Web, WGS84, World Geodetic System
related to Wiki interface · 2
GeoNames → The, Through
related to External links · 1
GeoNames → Official

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database web data feature geographical names services wiki features codes places locations interface accuracy information singh rafiei accessible various coordinates

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
provinces or countriesinstance ofComputing the boundary information can help detect inconsistencies such as near-identical places and the placement of locations such as cities under wrong parents0.80text
GeoNamesrelated to Accuracy and improvementsAs0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Accuracy and improvementsAhlers0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Accuracy and improvementsManually0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Accuracy and improvementsThe0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Accuracy and improvementsSingh0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Accuracy and improvementsRafiei0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Accuracy and improvementsComputing0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Database and web servicesThe GeoNames0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Database and web servicesAll0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Database and web servicesBeyond0.60section
GeoNamesrelated to Database and web servicesWorld Geodetic System0.60section

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