Review: Geographic Region

[MGlauer]

Review definitions of the class Geographic Region and its subclasses:

• [ ] City
• [ ] Continent
• [ ] Country
• [ ] FederalState
• [ ] LoadArea

Are classes missing?

[l-emele]

I think there is a geograpic region missing between federal state level and city level. Something like "Landkreis" in Germany and "Département" in France. Maybe "district" is a good generic term for those regions.

Secondly, "Continent" could be defined more generic as:

• There is no single definition for continents, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number
• In modeling there are often country aggregates that are not in line with physical geographic definitions but more with socio-economic areas e.g. MENA (Middle East and North Africa) or CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States ~ former USSR)

"WorldRegion" might be a better definition.

[han-f]

What about "Kommunen" and "Gemeinden"?

[klarareder]

Waht about non-govermental regions? Like Köppen Climate Regions? Is that used in energy szenarios?

[han-f]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS#Deutschland → Hauptartikel: NUTS-Regionen Deutschlands (NUTS:DE)

NUTS-1-Ebene mit den 16 Ländern
NUTS-2-Ebene mit 39 Regionen. Dabei handelt es sich um:
    19 Regierungsbezirke in den Ländern Baden-Württemberg (4), Bayern (7), Hessen (3) und Nordrhein-Westfalen (5)
    10 ehemalige Regierungsbezirke: in Rheinland-Pfalz drei Regierungsbezirke, die 2000 aufgelöst wurden, in Niedersachsen vier Regierungsbezirke, die 2005 aufgelöst wurden und jetzt als Statistische Regionen bezeichnet werden, und in Sachsen 3 Regierungsbezirke, später Direktionsbezirke, die 2012 aufgelöst wurden
    9 Länder, die auf dieser Ebene nicht weiter untergliedert werden: die „Stadtstaaten“ Berlin, Hamburg und Bremen, sowie die „Flächenländer“ Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Sachsen-Anhalt, Saarland und Thüringen (Sie sind somit gleichzeitig NUTS-1-Regionen und NUTS-2-Regionen.)
NUTS-3-Ebene mit 401 Regionen in Deutschland entspricht der Kreisebene (Landkreise/Kreise und kreisfreie Städte bzw. in Baden-Württemberg Stadtkreise)
LAU-1-Regionen: sind in Deutschland Gemeindezusammenschlüsse wie Samtgemeinden, Verwaltungsgemeinschaften oder Verwaltungsverbände, aber auch Einheitsgemeinden
LAU-2-Regionen sind Gemeinden und gemeindefreie Gebiete

[han-f]

What about a single point, i.e. coordinate?

[l-emele]

Regarding continents: I'd prefer the seven continents definition (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia/Oceania).

For MENA, CIS and areas like that: Something like WorldRegion or SocioEconomicRegion. Also the European Union would fit to that.

[fabianneuhaus]

If you are looking for a standardised ontology that covers regions, countries and their parts, you may want to have a look at https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/1.0/ https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/1.0/

The specification itself is https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/1.0/PDF https://www.omg.org/spec/LCC/1.0/PDF

By “standardized” I mean that the ontology is issued by the Object Management Group. This standard builds on ISO 639 and basically formalises it. Best Fabian

On 5. Sep 2018, at 14:31, l-emele notifications@github.com wrote:

Regarding continents: I'd prefer the seven continents definition (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia/Oceania).

For MENA, CIS and areas like that: Something like WorldRegion or SocioEconomicRegion. Also the European Union would fit to that.

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[han-f]

Thanks. We'll have a look, not sure yet, whether standardised is what fits the energy context best.

[han-f]

I think this can be closed. We can reopen if necessary.