Strawperson model for Place

[azaroth42]

Most useful subset of geonames? Pull in @mejackreed.

[mejackreed]

Let me know what you mean and happy to contribute.

[no-reply]

DPLA MAPv4 uses edm:Place, assuming a base compatibility with geonames:Feature (this makes it a subclass of schema:Place). This compatibility is improved in Geonames Ontology 3.1, which removes cardinality constraints from gn:Feature.

It may be worth looking at the status of ongoing work of the W3C Spatial Data on the Web WG.

A few questions:

• Do we have use cases for cartographic points, bounding boxes, polygons, multi-polygons, and/or all of the above?
• Do we have use cases for geographic/administrative feature hierarchies?

[no-reply]

Feature hierarchies are welcome in the same way as broader/narrower concepts.

[azaroth42]

What relationships are there from resources to Places? dcterms:spatial (which seems like it could just be subject, no?) schema:birthPlace / deathPlace ... we should have some sort of place of creation (bf:originPlace ?). There isn't an event model, which would be the obvious place for it.

[anarchivist]

We should add dcterms:spatial for the sake of alignment with DPLA MAPv4.

Closing, because documentation exists.