Geonames ontology v2.0 review 2/3 « Geospatial Meaning
The geonames ontology is merged with SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems). SKOS facilitates the building of thesauri, taxonomies and controlled vocabularies in a simpler way than OWL. This characteristic is used by geonames ontology to define a geographical feature types taxonomy.

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