Place Type

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

The kind of a geographic place (country, region, city, building, room, …). Modelled as a value, not a Place subclass: the set of kinds is open-ended (GeoNames lists ~600 feature codes) and they share all of Place's structure, so a new kind is a new individual, not a new class.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

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

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to mint a new kind of geographic place (the GeoNames feature-code superset) as an individual on the open value vocabulary.

Avoid when

• Avoid subclassing Place for a granularity or feature kind (the kind is a gmeow:placeType value, never a class).

How to use

• Mint the kind as a gmeow:PlaceType individual and reference it from a Place via gmeow:placeType.

Examples

• ex:placeTypeHamletPlace a gmeow:PlaceType.