GeoShape - Schema.org Type
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GeoShape
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Thing
Intangible
StructuredValue
GeoShape
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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.
More specific Types
GeoCircle
Acknowledgements
IPTC rNews properties
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
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