Re: Ideas for World Hierarchy Example

Marshall wrote:
> On Jan 8, 9:43 pm, "Neo" <neo55..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > What important things should a hierarchy of the world store? I am
> > thinking of adding planets, continents, countries, US states, most
> > populus cities, oceans, longest rivers, highest mountains and most
> > spoken languages for starters. Can someone suggest other items they
> > would find interesting? Or websites similar tohttp://worldatlas.com
> > for such data?
>
> One easy source of info: wikipedia. Put all that stuff into a
> knowledgebase and you've got something.

Isn't it already in a "knowledgebase"?

> I wouldn't suggest
> a hierarchy is a good way to go, though.

Agreed. It seems like a di-graph (aka web) with trees on the nodes (eg xhtml) is working well, however, right?

cheers! --dawn Received on Wed Jan 10 2007 - 13:27:59 CET