GeoShape - Schema.org Type (original) (raw)

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The geographic shape of a place. A GeoShape can be described using several properties whose values are based on latitude/longitude pairs. Either whitespace or commas can be used to separate latitude and longitude; whitespace should be used when writing a list of several such points.

Property Expected Type Description
Properties from GeoShape
address PostalAddress or Text Physical address of the item.
addressCountry Country or Text The country. Recommended to be in 2-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format, for example "US". For backward compatibility, a 3-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code such as "SGP" or a full country name such as "Singapore" can also be used.
box Text A box is the area enclosed by the rectangle formed by two points. The first point is the lower corner, the second point is the upper corner. A box is expressed as two points separated by a space character.
circle Text A circle is the circular region of a specified radius centered at a specified latitude and longitude. A circle is expressed as a pair followed by a radius in meters.
elevation Number or Text The elevation of a location (WGS 84). Values may be of the form 'NUMBER UNIT_OF_MEASUREMENT' (e.g., '1,000 m', '3,200 ft') while numbers alone should be assumed to be a value in meters.
line Text A line is a point-to-point path consisting of two or more points. A line is expressed as a series of two or more point objects separated by space.
polygon Text A polygon is the area enclosed by a point-to-point path for which the starting and ending points are the same. A polygon is expressed as a series of four or more space delimited points where the first and final points are identical.
postalCode Text The postal code. For example, 94043.
Properties from Thing
additionalType Text or URL An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName Text An alias for the item.
description Text or TextObject A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription Text A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier PropertyValue or Text or URL The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image ImageObject or URL An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork or URL Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.Inverse property: mainEntity
name Text The name of the item.
owner Organization or Person A person or organization who owns this Thing.Inverse property: owns
potentialAction Action Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs URL URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf CreativeWork or Event A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.Inverse property: about
url URL URL of the item.

Instances of GeoShape may appear as a value for the following properties

Property On Types Description
areaServed ContactPoint or DeliveryChargeSpecification or Demand or FinancialIncentive or Offer or Organization or Service The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided.
eligibleRegion ActionAccessSpecification or DeliveryChargeSpecification or Demand or Offer The ISO 3166-1 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) or ISO 3166-2 code, the place, or the GeoShape for the geo-political region(s) for which the offer or delivery charge specification is valid.See also ineligibleRegion.
geo Place The geo coordinates of the place.
ineligibleRegion ActionAccessSpecification or DeliveryChargeSpecification or Demand or MediaObject or Offer The ISO 3166-1 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) or ISO 3166-2 code, the place, or the GeoShape for the geo-political region(s) for which the offer or delivery charge specification is not valid, e.g. a region where the transaction is not allowed.See also eligibleRegion.
serviceArea ContactPoint or Organization or Service The geographic area where the service is provided.

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Acknowledgements

This class contains derivatives of IPTC rNews properties. rNews is a data model of publishing metadata with serializations currently available for RDFa as well as HTML5 Microdata. More information about the IPTC and rNews can be found at rnews.org.