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Geospatial Ontology

Spanish Administrative Land Units

by The Ontology Engineering Group

Vocabulario para la representación de unidades territoriales en España is an ontology for describing the types of territories that are found in Spain. This includes counties, municipal districts, and census tracts. All classes are related to pre-defined classes from extended vocabularies

Assessment

  • Open License Yes

  • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

    This vocabulary is intended to be used by municipalities across Spain, but could be transferable. Data class and property names that are not inherited are in Spanish

  • Stakeholder Participation Yes

    The contributors to this vocabulary includes members of Spanish city councils

  • Consensus-Based Governance No

    No way for the public and interested parties to contribute to the development of vocabularies

  • Extensions No

  • Human Readable Yes

    An HTML documentation page makes the ontology schema human-readable

  • Machine Readable Yes

    An OWL schema is provided

  • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

  • Metadata Yes

    Extends geoSPARQL, GeoNames, and schema.org ontologies. Also extends the Modelo de direcciones de la Administración General del Estado v.2

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