ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces author's prior and current work in resolving semantic differences in land use/land cover codes, along with a discussion and description of author's current activities from a National Science Foundation INTEROP grant awarded to the Spatial Ontology Community of Practice group. Land use data have importance in many applications, including land use planning. However, land information data developed by local, regional, state, and federal governments and the private sector are not homogeneous across jurisdictional boundaries. Historically, land use classification systems evolved out of the need to describe certain observable conditions in the landscape. They offer a systematic way to codify and categorize these conditions.
