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An open source gazetteer constructed on ontological principles
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Geographic relations #24

Open pbuttigieg opened 5 years ago

pbuttigieg commented 5 years ago

Hi all, branching off of #21

GAZ will inevitably need some more geographically themed relations in RO, linked to issues such as https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/80, https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/envo/issues/148

Many existing spatial relations coming in from biology and anatomy can be used if their definitions are generalised a bit or if more general superclasses are created.

@rctauber @cmungall @lschriml Shall we use this issue to log object properties that GAZ curators feel would be useful?

pbuttigieg commented 5 years ago

@mpsaloha reminds me that GeoSPARQL should be cross-referenced and contacted here: https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geosparql

cmungall commented 5 years ago

Sounds good

We're already sharing some relations across anatomy and geography, e.g. tributary of. Some may be skeptical about abstracting at this level but it seems to work so far.

cmungall commented 5 years ago

We should also axiomatize in terms of spatial regions so that symbolic relations can be inferred from shape files etc

pbuttigieg commented 5 years ago

We should also axiomatize in terms of spatial regions so that symbolic relations can be inferred from shape files etc

This would make bridging to the GIS world much easier.