[Buildingdata] Re: Meta Sites

[Andy Turner]

Hi,

All seems very pragmatic.

As for the within part, it could be treated as a spatial relation.

With regard spatial relations, have you considered the following:
http://geotod.sourceforge.net/
?

Keep up the good work :)

Best wishes,

Andy


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Christopher Gutteridge
<cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys. I've got a minor but interesting issue with our sites:
>
> Our Buildings & Estates planon system regards these as 3 sites:
>
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/site/64.html
>
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/site/63.html
>
> But almost everyone just refers to them as "Wessex Lane". I've another
> site which is the "Glen Eyre Complex" which is also 3 or 4 sites
> according to the Planon DB.
>
> I'm thinking of making a meta-site to contain these 3 sites, eg.
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/site/wessexlane.html and say that these 3
> sites are within it. I think that's helpful for doing things like route
> planning. We want to show bike routes between major sites but the route
> should start/end at wessex lane, not any specific part of it.
>
> I also have
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/12.html
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/14.html
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/10.html
>
> which are parts of the library and some systems still refer to them,
> although they are now usually treated as a single building:
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/36.html
>
> Again; should I just say the first 3 are within b36?
> (alternately I could use the dublin core 'part of' relation, but we've
> used sr:within elsewhere)
>
> Any ideas or advice?
>
> --
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
>
> You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>
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