ABSTRACT
One of the first things to remind ourselves of is that Geographic Information (GI) has a much broader definition than the data we may find within a Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It is certainly true that most of the thought on GI, and almost all of the standards, has come from the community of GIS users, broadened slightly by those interested in database technology such as Oracle. For the GI community, the adoption of the technologies offers the chance to open up their expertise and specialisms to a much wider audience. Geography provides a means to connect information through shared location, the Semantic Web through shared identity. To tackle the Semantic Web, it is important to gain an understanding of the open world assumption and then start by expressing some simple data in triple form.
