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COMMONS13 — Locations ontology should reuse W3C WGS84 ontology

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  • Key: COMMONS13-28
  • Status: closed   Implementation work Blocked
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    See https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/. This tiny ontology with representation of lat/long is widely supported by graph databases and allows use of GeoSPARQL. It makes little sense for OMG to define its own properties such as &cmns-loc;hasLongitude..
    Example:
    <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">
    <geo:Point>
    <geo:lat>55.701</geo:lat>
    <geo:long>12.552</geo:long>
    </geo:Point>
    </rdf:RDF>
  • Reported: Commons 1.2b1 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:47 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — COMMONS 1.3b1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Locations ontology should reuse W3C WGS84 ontology

    Added references to the WGS84 ontology using rdfs:seeAlso, given that the properties in this vocabulary are RDF properties and not directly usable in OWL. Also revised links to ESRI according to their new dictionary, and added hasAltitude for the sake of completeness.

    Note that this revision depends on the resolution of Commons-1.3.20, which covers all changes made through Ballot #3.
  • Updated: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:18 GMT
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