Research on the construction and application of the generalized toponym ontology

In the paper, the generalized toponym ontology(GTO) is constructed and consummate d by use of the topography vocabulary and correlative nation standards. The ontology is us ed to classify and encode the generalized toponym information, spatial topology relations reasoning based on Jena and knowledge retrieval. GTO is the future development trend of the to ponym science and it will be the massy base of the intellective toponym services on the semantic web.