Re: About the location class in the Core Location Vocabulary (locn)

Hi All,

On Fri, 9/4/15, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:
 I would venture to say that using the name of an organization as a geographicName is inappropriate.
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I agree for the same reasons Frans noted.

 On Fri, 9/4/15, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:
 This is a defintion from the INSPIRE data specification ...
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I was pretty sure someone was to blame for giving Americans this problem too.
Thanks a lot INSPIRE  ;(

One tactic I use is to leverage the area element from OASIS Common Alert Protocol (CAP) to describe and circumscribe a territory within which an event takes place.  This description will be helpful *later* to match records and for analysis by affinity criterion.  Since the US National Weather Service ATOM Feeds are CAP Format, these are a ready source of first approximations to territorial scope.

see also: CAP as an XML extension to StratML (ISO 17469-1)
http://www.rustprivacy.org/2015/stratml/cap_sml/vfsroot/
Note: under construction, index may be improved without warning, by the end of the day it should look more like this ... http://www.rustprivacy.org/2015/stratml/xmltech/vfsroot/


--Gannon

 
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On Fri, 9/4/15, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:

 Subject: Re: About the location class in the Core Location Vocabulary (locn)
 To: "cristiano longo" <cristianolongo@gmail.com>
 Cc: "Public LOCADD" <public-locadd@w3.org>, "Phil Archer" <phila@w3.org>
 Date: Friday, September 4, 2015, 10:55 AM
 
 Hello
 Cristiano,
 I would venture
 to say that using the name of an organization as a
 geographicName is inappropriate.
 Perhaps a definition of what a
 geographical name is can be of service. Geographical names
 are "Names of areas, regions, localities, cities,
 suburbs, towns or settlements, or any geographical or
 topographical feature of public or historical
 interest.". This is a defintion from the INSPIRE
 data specification for Geogaphical Names that LOCN
 refers to. A geographic name is something that could be used
 in a gazetteer, a single name to indicate a certain
 location. Examples are 'Berlin', 'Sahara',
 'Eiffel tower', 'Mississippi'. So a
 geographic name is a text label for a
 location. 
 I would
 say the name of an organization in general is not the label
 of a location, but of an organization.
 If you want to use the
 geographicName property (you don't have to), I would
 suggest you use it to refer to the name of the city,
 neighbourhood, or building in which the event is taking
 place.
 Regards,Frans
 
 
 2015-09-04 17:18 GMT+02:00
 Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>:
 Forwarding this to the correct
 list.
 
 
 
 
 
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 Subject: About the location class in the Core Location
 Vocabulary (locn)
 
 Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:54:34 +0000
 
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 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:54:02 +0200
 
 From: cristiano longo <cristianolongo@gmail.com>
 
 To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
 <semantic-web@w3.org>
 
 
 
 Hi, I'm using the LOCN vocabulary (http://www.w3.org/ns/locn)
 to describe
 
 event places. Now a location can have associated an address
 and a
 
 "geometry" (usually point coordinates). In
 addition, a geographicName can
 
 be associated to the object.
 
 The description in the vocabulary specification for this
 property is the
 
 following:
 
 
 
 "A geographic name is a proper noun applied to a
 spatial object."
 
 
 
 Now the event I'm currently modelling take place in the
 principal site of
 
 an organization (see the Organization ontology,
 
 http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/).
 
 
 
 Saying that I have specified that the location is the
 principal site of the
 
 organization, should I use the organization name as
 geographicName of the
 
 Location instance or it is inappropriate?
 
 
 
 Thanks in advance.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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