The Open Wine Maps Project

Open Wine Maps is s a community effort to organize global geographical information relating to the world of wine. It is a purely educational project or for those interested in the geography of wine.

Current community focus areas are prioritized as primary, secondary and terriary.

Primary:

  1. Wine producing regions
  2. Official and proposed viticulture areas potentially using the Landform Schema.org type definition.
  3. Winery’s described using the Winery Schema.org type definition

Secondary:

  1. Vineyards potentially using the Landform Schema.org type definition.
  2. Vines
  3. Wines described with the Product Schema.org type definition
  4. Winemaker potentially described using Ronan Guilloux’s proposed Winemaker schema type an extention to the official Person Schema.org type definition

Tertiary:

  1. Historical weather and planting data

The aspirations for this project are as board as the topic itself is defined:

cartography /kär-tŏg′rə-fē/ noun

  1. The art or technique of making maps or charts.
  2. The art or business of forming charts or maps.
  3. The making of maps and charts.

— The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Two very smart examples provided by the UC Davis Library GitHub and Ronan Guilloux of OpenWines in France, are providing some base assumptions and guiding principles.

Tag:landuse=vineyard

Structural Proposition

Community

Sources

  • https://ucdavislibrary.github.io/ava/
  • INAO, France
  • https://www.ttb.gov/wine/established-avas
  • https://www.ttb.gov/wine/ava-map-explorer
  • https://www.ttb.gov/ava/online-reading-room
  • https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-27/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-9
  • ArcGIS Geography of Wines

Tools

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