has coordinates

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

Relates a place to its geographic point coordinates. Flat shortcut for the common case; the full relator form is a CoordinateObservation linking the place to a GeoCoordinates result via gmeow:coordinateResult, carrying provenance, reference frame, confidence, and standpoint (Principle 3). Non-simple: derived via property chain from the reified observation path.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Place -> gmeow:GeoCoordinates

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasCoordinates from gmeow:Place to gmeow:GeoCoordinates when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

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

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: places as first-class located things, not address strings
#. A containment hierarchy (country ⊃ region ⊃ city ⊃ site) carries
# placeType, gazetteer coreference (authorityLink + skos:exactMatch, never
# owl:sameAs — P5), and coordinates two ways: the flat gmeow:hasCoordinates for
# the 80% case, and a reified gmeow:CoordinateObservation that makes the Principle
# 11 reference frame EXPLICIT (a latitude is meaningless without the frame it is
# expressed in) and carries the measurement's vantage, method, and confidence.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/places/> .
@prefix wd:    <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .
@prefix skos:  <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

ex:edmonton a gmeow:Place ;
    gmeow:name "Edmonton"@en ;
    gmeow:placeType gmeow:placeTypeCity ;
    gmeow:containedInPlace ex:alberta ;
    gmeow:authorityLink wd:Q2096 ;
    skos:exactMatch wd:Q2096 ;
    # The flat coordinate shortcut: a GeoCoordinates point, no provenance needed.
    gmeow:hasCoordinates ex:edmontonCoords .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Place, gmeow:GeoCoordinates

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 as the flat shortcut to attach a place's point coordinates for the common, single-survey case.

Avoid when

• Avoid when multiple surveys must coexist or provenance/frame/confidence matter — promote to gmeow:CoordinateObservation with gmeow:coordinateResult; this property is precision-bearing (coarsenGuarded) so do not emit it raw to public consumers.

How to use

• Use the flat gmeow:hasCoordinates for one trusted point; otherwise reify via gmeow:hasCoordinateObservation → gmeow:coordinateResult, and pair with gmeow:coarsenTo + gmeow:hasSensitivity for disclosure control.

Examples

• ex:edinburgh gmeow:hasCoordinates ex:pt.

Use For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerInternalArchive
• gmeow:consumerResearchQueue

Avoid For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerPublicSite