- From: Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:50:14 +0200
- To: SDW WG Public List <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
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Hello all, This question is similar to an earlier question I asked and for which a somewhat workable solution was found: Good practice for RDF publishing of multiple geometries with different CRSs? <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2016Apr/0030.html> As part of the same use case, I now want to publish two kinds of geometry for a building: the centroid (a 2D point) and the shape at ground level (a 2D polygon). I could just publish both the geometries, but the question is how a consumer can select only the points or only the polygons. Up till now, I have been using GeoSPARQL WKT to express geometry. But part of the WKT specification is that the geometry type (e.g. POINT or POLYGON) is part of the WKT string. That makes it difficult to use as a selection criterion. A solution for publishing multiple geometries that differ in CRS was workable because a vocabulary exists for specifying a CRS: http://data.ign.fr/def/geometrie, provided by IGN France. Fortunately, the same vocabulary can be used to specify geometry. For example: ex:location1234 a dcterms:Location ; locn:geometry ex:geom1234 ; locn:geometry ex:geom6789 . ex:geom1234 a geom:Geometry, geom:Point ; geom:crs <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/28992> ; gsp:asWKT "<http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/28992> POINT(...)"^^geosparql:wktLiteral . ex:geom6789 a geom:Geometry, geom:Polygon ; geom:crs <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/28992> ; gsp:asWKT "<http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/28992> POLYGON(...)"^^geosparql:wktLiteral . When published like this, a consumer could easily ask for only the points (instances of class geom:Point) or only the polygons. But there is a problem with this approach: like the CRS, the geometry type is specified twice: next to the coordinate expression and within the coordinate expression. The specifications of geometry type and CRS are redundant, which has drawbacks of data bloat and risk of inconsistency. But perhaps it is still the best available solution at the moment? Can this approach be recommended as a best practice? Regards, Frans
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