Free POI Taxonomy
November 20, 2010 7:20 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for a freely-licensed taxonomy of points of interest (a way to classify businesses and physical features, primarily of the urban environment). I have found this [pdf] at the Ordnance Survey, which is quite thorough.
But it's:
- not under a free license
- rather UK-specific
- not particularly urban-oriented
USGS material is mostly public domain. Links to published standards for their quadrangle maps should be available here, but it's not available at the moment -- it seems the server is down. Google's cached version is here.
Unfortunately, I can't find the PDF's themselves anywhere.
posted by clorox at 8:51 PM on November 20, 2010
Unfortunately, I can't find the PDF's themselves anywhere.
posted by clorox at 8:51 PM on November 20, 2010
Not quite what you want, but you can get royalty free geo-data here.
posted by blue_beetle at 5:30 AM on November 21, 2010
posted by blue_beetle at 5:30 AM on November 21, 2010
Response by poster: scruss is on the right track, and SchemaTroll looks terrifyingly complete, but another important element for me (that I didn't stress) is that it be a hierarchical taxonomy, like the Ordnance Survey one. SchemaTroll appears to be flat.
posted by grubby at 5:08 PM on November 24, 2010
posted by grubby at 5:08 PM on November 24, 2010
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posted by scruss at 7:39 PM on November 20, 2010