RE: Does 'Feature' = 'Real World Thing'?

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:38 PM, Joshua Lieberman wrote:
[...]

[Clemens]
> > But first of all, the feature is an information object describing a real-world
> thing.
> 
> That's consistent with the definition of Spatial Object in INSPIRE. Restated:
> • Feature != Real-World Thing
> • Feature = Information Resource that _describes_ Real-World Thing
> @Josh, @Simon: can you confirm this meets your expectations?

[Josh]
> Almost. There are two feature statements needed to get from the world to
> spatial data:
> 
> 1. Feature = discernment of a type of Real-World Thing (as distinct from Not
> Thing)
> 2. Feature Data = representation of a Feature (as an information resource)

Does that mean that if I want to express this in RDF, I need three URIs? One for the real-world-thing, one for the feature and one for the feature representation?

Best,

Lars (who starts to feel confused...)

Received on Thursday, 22 October 2015 06:36:51 UTC