We recently participated in the 5th Geoweb Summit in DUMBO and it was an amazing get-together of people from different industries behind this nascent movement. What is the Geoweb, you may ask? According to the geowebforum:
“The Geoweb connects the digital realm to physical location, through location-based services, hyperlocal media, digital out-of-home and augmented reality.”
And as a Linked Open Data startup, we couldn’t agree more. The main concept that links all the Open Data we’re organizing is Location. Location is the pivot facet, the top practical superclass, the supercontext for all the Open Data we’re linking.
Here’s our take on the common thread of the Semantic Web and the GeoWeb.