Re: Encoding geospatial features on schema.org

Note that I raised an issue for this: 
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1691

cheers


On 12/07/17 11:00, Martin Hepp wrote:
>>> With polygons features, I have even more problems because I cannot see how to specify holes in them (a common requirement in land cover maps).
>>>
>> That does seem like a genuine bug. For example it leaves us unable describe Italy except by including the Vatican City and San Marino, and I think Schema probably should handle that use case properly.
> I think the most elegant option to fix that bug is to allow logical AND and OR operators over lists / sets of http://schema.org/GeoShape.
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> A simple modeling approach for this would be to add two properties
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>      includesGeoShape
> and
>      excludesGeoShape
> to
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> http://schema.org/GeoShape
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> One may want to define a subtype CompoundGeoShape of http://schema.org/GeoShape for this, but I think that is not really needed.
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> The range of the two properties should be http://schema.org/GeoShape.
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> That should do the trick.
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> Martin
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Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 09:15:23 UTC