Definition of 'Spatial Thing'

[lvdbrink]

The Basic Geo vocabulary has a class SpatialThing which has a very broad definition. This is not a problem for a lot of use cases. However, for some use cases we might need something more specific.

[lvdbrink]

Relates to Expressing spatial data section

[dr-shorthair]

Assume you will also align with OGC GeoSPARQL.
This includes some critical axioms:

geosparql:Geometry
rdf:type owl:Class ;
rdfs:subClassOf geosparql:SpatialObject ;
owl:disjointWith geosparql:Feature ;
.

[lvdbrink]

See also #212. "Spatial thing" is a glossary term marked with yellow to indicate it needs to be checked.

[6a6d74]

@PeterParslow - just checking you've seen that this is another Glossary review related action; could be worth checking with @lieberjosh

It would be worth indicating that Spatial Thing is not a Geometry ...

[lvdbrink]

A lot of recent discussion on the mailing list, see thread

[6a6d74]

Closing as the BP doc now includes the pertinent details from the email thread referenced above. See PR #781