Re: How to link address and geometry to the object located there

2015-11-11 21:44 GMT+01:00 Andrea Perego <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > For me a logical way of modelling would be to say that pharmacies are
> > instances of the dctemrs:Location class and are related to address and/or
> > geometry resources (instances of locn:Geometry and locn:Address). The
> > properties locn:geometry and locn:address can be used to link a pharmacy
> to
> > geometries and/or addresses. The locn:location property could be used to
> > link other resources to pharmacies as locations.
>
> This is an option, but Christiano's one is equally valid, IMO.
>
> All depends on what you mean with "pharmacy": is it a legal entity?
> the physical place? other things?
>

Could we say it depends on the nature of the location too? If I understand
correctly, the difference between both approaches is whether or not the
location is modelled as a separate thing. If it is, the data are a bit more
elaborate (complex), but it would be helpful to separate the location if
other things can be related to that same location. For example, I think a
dietary consultant works at the location of my neighbourhood pharmacy. So
that would mean two different businesses related to the same location. Or
the pharmacy could be part of a hospital which is modelled as one location.
In that case other things could be expected to be related to the same
location too. Or perhaps it would just be nice to give external data the
ability to link to the location as a location, not as a pharmacy...

Anyway, it is nice to see there is plenty of freedom in using LOCN :-)

Regards,
Frans


>
> Andrea
>
>
> > Regards,
> > Frans
> >
> >
> >
> > 2015-11-10 11:33 GMT+01:00 Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> I need to say that an organization (a pharmacy in particular) is located
> >> at an address and at the specified lat/lon coordinates, but I'm a bit
> >> confused. In the w3c ISA Programme Location Core Vocabulary description
> >> (http://www.w3.org/ns/locn) there is a diagram in Section Vocabulary
> Terms
> >> at a Glance showing a resource (the pharmacy in my case?) is directly
> linked
> >> with the Location, the Address and the Geometry. But, in the joinup web
> site
> >> I found another diagram showing that the Location instance is linked
> with
> >> Geometry and Address
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/site/core_vocabularies/Core_Vocabularies_v1.1/Core_Vocabularies_v1.1.htm
> >> .
> >>
> >> Currently, I'm using the latter modelling. Thus I  have a Pharmacy
> >> instance linked with a Location one via the location property, and the
> >> Location instance linked with an Address and a Geomerty one. Do I am
> right?
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance,
> >> Cristiano Longo
> >
> >
>
>
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