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Re: [ontolog-forum] GPS coordinates in an ontology?

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From: Joshua Lieberman <jlieberman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:48:40 -0400
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Updated here: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo-ont-20071023/    (01)

Depending on the required precision, GPS coordinates may or may not be 
something to enshrine in a static ontology, and a GPS point may or may not be 
the appropriate geometric representation.    (02)

-Josh    (03)

On Oct 25, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Pierre Grenon wrote:    (04)

> hi
> 
> this is a fairly common approach
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos
> 
> how you tweak it may depend on your data
> 
> cheers
> pierre
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Erick Antezana
> <erick.antezana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was requested to include GPS coordinates in one of our ontologies we
>> have in-house (the one dealing with geographical localisations). I was
>> wondering whether there is a "recommendation" (standards) on how to
>> capture those coordinates (latitude, longitude or its components:
>> degrees, minutes, seconds) within an ontology? Is there any ontology
>> capturing such elements?
>> 
>> thanks in advance,
>> Erick
>> 
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