RE: Spatial datatypes and RDF/OWL

> I don't imagine that you'd want to do something like
> 
> FILTER(withinDistance(?g1, ?g2, 3.2))
> 
> with triples. You could write it as
> 
> [] a :PairwiseDistance ;
>     :point ?g1 ;
>     :point ?g2 ;
>     :distance ?d ;
> FILTER(?d < 3.2)
> 
> but it seems a bit verbose, and if you try to materialise the graph it
> will be massive.

Agreed - I had imagined that distance calculations/queries would be done
using a FILTER rather than as triples. 

John

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