Place

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

A geographic location at any granularity — a country, region, city, thoroughfare, site, building, floor, or room. The specific kind is given by gmeow:placeType (a value), not a subclass, so any level can be a first-class place with its own coordinates and external identifiers.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Location

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Place as a specialized kind of gmeow:Location. 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

# --- The containment spine: each place is a first-class Place, related by
#     gmeow:containedInPlace, with gazetteer alignment by reference.
ex:canada a gmeow:Place ;
    gmeow:name "Canada"@en ;
    gmeow:placeType gmeow:placeTypeCountry ;
    gmeow:authorityLink wd:Q16 ;
    skos:exactMatch wd:Q16 .

ex:alberta a gmeow:Place ;
    gmeow:name "Alberta"@en ;
    gmeow:placeType gmeow:placeTypeRegion ;
    gmeow:containedInPlace ex:canada ;
    gmeow:authorityLink wd:Q1951 ;
    skos:exactMatch wd:Q1951 .

Location Access

• Source: slices/extensions/accessibility/examples/location-access.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-accessibility-examples-location-access

# --- A location with a feature and a barrier (facets are per-location facts).
ex:library a gmeow:Place ;
    gmeow:name                    "City Library"@en ;
    gmeow:hasAccessibilityFeature gmeow:facetWheelchair ;
    gmeow:hasBarrier              gmeow:facetVisual .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Location

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: bot, crmgeo, geo, gn, ladm, lgdo, mrg, pleiades, schema, wd, whg

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 locus at ANY granularity — country, region, city, building, floor, room — letting gmeow:placeType say which.

Avoid when

• Avoid minting a Place subclass per granularity (the level is a gmeow:placeType value, never a class) and avoid Place for online or storage loci (use VirtualLocation / StorageLocation).

How to use

• Type as Place, set gmeow:placeType, chain the containment ladder with gmeow:containedInPlace, and attach coordinates via gmeow:hasCoordinates or the reified CoordinateObservation.

Examples

• ex:edinburgh a gmeow:Place; gmeow:placeType gmeow:placeTypeCity; gmeow:containedInPlace ex:scotland.