An area is a geographic area whose geometry may change over time.
The Area class should have properties for:
name
Boston Ward 1
identifier
ocd-division/country:us/state:ma/place:boston/ward:1
classification
ward
parent area
Boston
geometry
Dublin Core, GeoNames and ISA Programme Location Core Vocabulary terms are retained from the inventory of terms.
Term | Mapping | Definition |
---|---|---|
Area | gn:Feature |
A geographic area whose geometry may change over time |
name | gn:name |
A primary name |
identifier | dcterms:identifier |
An issued identifier, e.g. an Open Civic Data Division Identifier |
classification | gn:featureCode |
An area category, e.g. city |
parent area | gn:parentFeature |
The area that contains this area |
geometry | locn:geometry |
A geometry |
The use of Open Civic Data Division Identifiers is recommended. The value of the geometry
property may be any geometry encoding.
JSON differences from other RDF serializations:
classification
is used instead of featureCode
, to be consistent with the Organization class.classification
property is a string, instead of a gn:Code
.parent
is used instead of containedIn
, to be consistent with the Organization class.None.