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AgrO describes agronomic practices, techniques, and variables used in agronomic experiments.
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Geopolitical regions #27

Open pbuttigieg opened 7 years ago

pbuttigieg commented 7 years ago

Geopolitical/administrative regions should be available from something like GADM , FAO GAUL, or ISO19139 (e.g. ).

If no RDF is available, this may need to be created. Note that ENVO has some of these, but may not be up-to-date. SDGIO could use these too.

@marieALaporte @elizabetharnaud @cmungall Do you think we should manage an OBO semantic version of this in ENVO and link to classes in, e.g., GAUL? Or should we go entirely with an external reference? GAUL looks pretty good as it maps to time stamped shapefiles that are relevant to the ag domain.

@brianjlowe FYI

marieALaporte commented 7 years ago

GAUL licence seems to be very restrictive: http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?id=12691

License: Formal permission to do something

cmungall commented 7 years ago

maybe @jhpoelen knows

jhpoelen commented 7 years ago

I've been using geonames - I believe they also have shapefiles associated with their administrative areas.

oldskeptic commented 4 years ago

I second using geonames, they provide feature level containment which resolves a number of use cases such as "What country is this in".