Re: Area of spatial objects

Op do 25 okt. 2018 om 03:42 schreef <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>:

> Unfortunately http://dbpedia.org/ontology/area is *not* general - it is
> bound to m2.
>

It is bound to the square meter, yes. But isn't the square meter the
general (SI) unit of area?
Besides that, having the unit in the definition of the quantity could be
seen as an advantage - no need to repeat the unit for each measurement.

Regards,
Frans

http://qudt.org/vocab/quantity#Area is good-ish, but QUDT v2 has been in
> the pipeline for several years now (more than 5) but its publication is
> stalled L
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> *From:* Frans Knibbe [mailto:frans.knibbe@geodan.nl]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 24 October, 2018 18:46
> *To:* public-sdwig@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Area of spatial objects
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> Hi Nick,
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> A good general property for specifying area could be
> http://dbpedia.org/ontology/area. But since you are already using QUDT,
> how about http://qudt.org/vocab/quantity#Area?
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> As for relating a feature to different areas depending on CRS, I think it
> would be best to first link a feature to geometries (a different geometry
> for each CRS) and then link each geometry to both a CRS and an area.
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> Greetings,
>
> Frans
>