Dear all,
One of the basic place type in geonames.org
<http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html> is :
PPL populated place a city, town, village, or other agglomeration
of buildings where people live and work
A populated place in this sense means different things :
1. an agglomeration of buildings;
2. a community of people;
3. the projection of them on the Earth surface.
My question is: how should we model these entities and their relationship ?
1. an agglomeration of buildings -> E24_Physical_Man-Made_Thing or,
more precisely, B1 Built Work ?
2. a community of people -> E74_Group
<http://dataforhistory.org/ontology_management/class_page.html?pk_item=68>
or E4_Period
<http://dataforhistory.org/ontology_management/class_page.html?pk_item=4>
3. the projection of both on the Earth surface -> E53_Place
<http://dataforhistory.org/ontology_management/class_page.html?pk_item=51>
"P156_occupies" links E24 and E53: but the spatial footprint of E24
(the agglomeration of buildings) can change over time: new, larger city
walls are built, etc.
Are these different places (E53) which are related to different
time-spans ? Or the same place but in a more abstract sense ?
And also: which class is suited for modelling
"FRST forest(s) an area dominated by tree vegetation"
or
"VINS vineyards plantings of grapevines" ?
And for mountain or valley ?
Can we model all this just with E53 Place and a vocabulary of types ?
Were can I find some examples for modelling these different kinds of
'Places' using the CRM ?
Thank you for some hints !
Francesco
