Re: Best Practice for encoding spatial coverage

Dear all,

> ex:myDataset
> dcterms:spatial ex:myExtent .
>
> ex:myExtent
> a dcterms:Location ;
> schema:box "50 4 52 6" .

This solution is indeed simple and I personally like it (although I 
would prefer the comma separated syntactic version.

Note, however, that the property https://schema.org/box is still very 
weakly adopted by the community (range of 10-100 domains) which means 
that this property is at risk (in future developments of schema.org). 
There is also the related issue #113 that I encourage you to watch: 
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/113

I think that it is also worth to list in the BP document the pointer 
provided by Andrea, the GeoDCAT-AP profile, 
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/139283/ and the 3 possible values of 
the locn:geometry property (geosparql wktLiteral POLYGON, gml envelope 
encoded in XML, geojson)
Best regards.

   Raphaël

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Received on Friday, 19 June 2015 11:42:34 UTC