EDINA newsline
March 2008: Volume 13 Issue 1
GeoCrossWalk, EDINA’s geospatial gazetteer that cross-references a range of geographical features, is now an application programming interface (API), available from within the EDINA Digimap service.
GeoCrossWalk is more than just a simple look-up facility. Every geographic feature stored in the gazetteer has detailed co-ordinate geometry stored with it, enabling complex spatial searching based on relationships between features, and providing more accurate results than simple look-ups.
GeoCrossWalk aims to assist other applications such as portals, virtual learning applications or research services to discover and exploit materials that have a spatial reference (eg place names and postcodes).
Read more about GeoCrossWalk from the web address below, or by logging in to Digimap.