AMSLER@SRI-AI.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (07/30/83)
From: Robert Amsler <AMSLER@SRI-AI.ARPA> I want to build a geographic knowledge base and wonder if someone out there has small or large sets of foreign geographic data. Something containing elements such as (PARIS CITY FRANCE) composed of three items, Geographic-Name, Superclass, and Containing-Geographic item. I have already acquired a list of all U.S. cities and their state memberships; but apart from that need other geographic information for other U.S. features (e.g. counties, rivers, mountains, etc.) as well as world-wide data. I am not especially looking for numeric data (e.g. Longitude and Latitude; elevations, etc.) nor numeric attributes such as population, area, etc. -- I want symbolic data, names of geographic entities. Note::: I do mean already machine-readable. Bob Amsler Natural-Language and Knowledge-Resource Systems Group Advanced Computer Systems Department SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave Menlo Park, CA 95025