Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) coordinates Vocabulary

This version:: http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/Ordnance_Survey/versions/2006-04-24.html
Latest version:: http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/Ordnance_Survey/
Previous version:: http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/Ordnance_Survey/versions/2005-12-18.html
Author:: Earle Martin

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. This copyright applies to the File Properties Vocabulary documentation and does not apply to the File Properties Vocabulary data formats, vocabulary terms, or technology. Regarding underlying technology, the File Properties Vocabulary relies heavily on W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone.

Abstract

This is a simple RDF vocabulary for expressing OSGB36 coordinates.

Following is an example of a simple RDF document expressing the coordinates of a point.

<rdf:RDF
  xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
  xmlns:dc  = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:geo = "http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
  xmlns:os  = "http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/Ordnance_Survey/schema/1#"
>

<geo:SpatialThing>
  <os:x>12345</os:x>
  <os:y>12345</os:x>
</geo:SpatialThing>

The vocabulary is defined in the schema file.

Changes since last version

At the suggestion of Nicolas Kessner, to avoid validation issues and generally make things simpler, the definitions have been moved out of the source of this page into a separate file. This accordingly means that URIs for country definitions have changed from (for example) http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/Ordnance_Survey/#x to http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/Ordnance_Survey/schema/1#x.

Switched to using absolute URIs for the terms per a suggestion from Sean Palmer.

Acknowledgements

Parts of the layout of this document and the licensing information were adapted from the FOAF Vocabulary Specification by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller.