Month: May 2013

One way firefighters world wide assist themselves while navigating through towns and cities is recording ‘distinctive points’ (actually that is how we navigate through smoke as well.) So instead of a ‘turn left at the third traffic light’ we often record ‘turn left at ABC Pharmacy’. So where does linked data come into play? In the current economic situation shops come and go, so ‘ABC Pharmacy’ from the example might be long gone, leaving a driver clueless as where to turn left! What stays the same is the address, but then again navigating on addresses is not really trustworthy so…