[Buildingdata] Re: Meta Sites

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Seems it was a very short (4 month) project; I've still suggested it 
would help if the front page explained a bit more what it did!

Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> I've had a look around geotod and it's a bit poor, sadly. They don't 
> really explain what it's intended to be used for.
>
> I finally found some documentation by browsing the SVN on 
> sourceforge... it was a microsoft word file. I'm just going to give up 
> now. There might be something useful in that project but it sadly 
> seems to me to be a half-arsed bit of code which was done to 
> fulfill/get funding.
>
> Seeing as there's no a single link to it that I can find using Google, 
> maybe it was just never finished and formally released?
>
> Andy Turner wrote:
>> 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> <mailto: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
>>>
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>
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