Geo Coordinates

• CURIE: gmeow:GeoCoordinates
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/GeoCoordinates
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/places
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A geographic point expressed as latitude, longitude, and optional elevation.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Entity

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:GeoCoordinates as a specialized kind of gmeow:Entity. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Located Place

• Source: slices/core/places/examples/located-place.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-places-examples-located-place

ex:edmontonCoords a gmeow:GeoCoordinates ;
    gmeow:latitude "53.5461"^^xsd:decimal ;
    gmeow:longitude "-113.4938"^^xsd:decimal .

ex:officeCoords a gmeow:GeoCoordinates ;
    gmeow:latitude "53.5443"^^xsd:decimal ;
    gmeow:longitude "-113.4909"^^xsd:decimal ;
    gmeow:elevation "645.0"^^xsd:decimal .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: schema

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a geographic point value — latitude, longitude, optional elevation — as the result of a coordinate observation or the target of gmeow:hasCoordinates.

Avoid when

• Avoid for shapes richer than a point (use Geometry with WKT/GeoJSON) and avoid embedding a frame in the literal — frame travels on the observation (Principle 11).

How to use

• Mint GeoCoordinates with gmeow:latitude / gmeow:longitude / gmeow:elevation; reach it from a place via gmeow:hasCoordinates or via CoordinateObservation → gmeow:coordinateResult carrying frame and provenance.

Examples

• ex:pt a gmeow:GeoCoordinates; gmeow:latitude 55.95; gmeow:longitude -3.19.

Use For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerInternalArchive
• gmeow:consumerResearchQueue

Avoid For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerPublicSite