Slides of the talk during Terracognita 2014 in RIVA del GARDA, where the authors presented the description of ontologies for geometries, coordinate reference systems and publication of French Administrative Units on the Web. Paper can be downloaded at http://event.cwi.nl/terracognita2014/terra2014_1.pdf.

1. PUBLISHING
REFERENCE
GEODATA
ON
THE
WEB:
OPPORTUNITIES
AND
CHALLENGES
FOR
IGN
FRANCE
Ghislain
A.
Atemezing,
Nathalie
Abadie,
Raphaël
Troncy,
Bénédicte
Bucher
Terra
Cognita
2014
6th
International
Workshop
on
the
Foundations,
Technologies
and
Applications
of
the
Geospatial
Web
October
19th
2014
Riva
del
Garda,
Trentino,
Italy
ANR-10-CORD-009

2. 2
GIS
DATA
§ DATA WITH ATTRIBUTES AND GEOMETRIES

3. 3
GIS
DATA
§ METRIC PROPERTIES CAN BE DERIVED FROM THE GEOMETRIES
Area:100
Km2
Perimeter:
53848
m

4. § TOPOLOGIC PROPERTIES CAN BE DERIVED FROM THE GEOMETRIES
4
GIS
DATA
AdjaAcreenat
to

5. § DIRECTIONAL PROPERTIES CAN BE DERIVED FROM THE GEOMETRIES
5
GIS
DATA
WAerseta
o
f

6. 6
LINKED
GEOREFERENCED
DATA
§ RESOURCE IDENTIFIED BY URI, DESCRIBED BY PROPERTIES

7. 7
LINKED
GEOREFERENCED
DATA
§ DIRECT SPATIAL REFERENCES

8. 8
LINKED
GEOREFERENCED
DATA
§ SPATIAL PROPERTIES

9. 9
LINKED
GEOREFERENCED
DATA
§ SPATIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN GEOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

10. 10
LINKED
GEOREFERENCED
DATA
§ LINKS BETWEEN DATA SOURCES

11. 11
LINKED
GEOREFERENCED
DATA

12. 12
OUR
GOAL
à Taking advantage of existing geographic data
sources on the Web
- To geo-reference other resources: provide URIs for
identifying geographic resources
- To contribute to better data linking results: provide
detailed and precise geometries, spatial properties

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§ GEOFLA® DATASET ON FRENCH ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS
Geofla metadata on CRS
http://professionnels.ign.fr/sites/default/files/DC_GEOFLA_1-1.pdf
Open Licence
PUBLISHING
REFERENCE
GEODATA
ON
THE
WEB

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PUBLISHING
REFERENCE
GEODATA
ON
THE
WEB
§ GEODATA PUBLICATION PROCESS:
TOOLS AND RESOURCES REQUIRED
ADAPTED FROM (SCHARFFE, 2013)
RDFS/OWL
ontologies
L(O)D
RDF
Data
linking
SW
RDF
RDF
2
RDF
Raw
RDF
Geo
2
RDF
SpaFal
RDB
GML
SHP
…
Data
sources
Vocabulary
of
geometries
Vocabulary
selecFon
ExisFng
vocabularies
Mapping
Vocabulary
of
geographic
feature
types
Vocabulary
search
CRS
registry

15. 15
VOCABULARY
FOR
GEOMETRY
§ REQUIREMENTS FOR DESCRIBING GEOMETRIES
(ATEMEZING AND TRONCY, 2012)
- Dissociating features and their geometries
- Representing structured geometries (à la NeoGeo)
- Associating geometries to any type of things
(not only Feature)
- Associating geometries to any
Coordinates Reference System

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VOCABULARY
FOR
GEOMETRY
§ REUSING EXISTING VOCABULARIES?
Limites:
W3C Basic Geo Vocabulary
GeoRSS
GeoSPARQL (Simple Features)
NeoGeo (geovocab)
Not enough geometry types Geometry represented only by literals
Restricted to WGS84 CRS
Domain of « hasGeometry » = Feature

17. -­‐ Structured
geometries
-­‐ Keep
compaFbility
with
GeoSparql
(wktLiteral)
-­‐ A
property
for
associaFng
anything
to
a
geometry
-­‐ A
property
for
associaFng
geometries
to
one
given
CRS
17
VOCABULARY
FOR
GEOMETRY
§ REUSING EXISTING VOCABULARIES
Limites:
W3C Basic Geo Vocabulary
GeoRSS
GeoSPARQL (Simple Features)
NeoGeo (geovocab)
To
be
extended
with:
Not enough geometry types Geometry represented only by literals
Restricted to WGS84 CRS
Domain of « hasGeometry » = Feature

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VOCABULARY
FOR
GEOMETRY
§ EXTENDING GEOSPARQL VOCABULARY
à Creating subclasses of GeoSparql classes when needed
@prefix
ngeo:
<h^p://geovocab.org/geometry#>.
@prefix
sf:
<h^p://www.opengis.net/ont/sf#>.
[…]
geom:Geometry
a
owl:Class;
rdfs:comment
"PrimiFve
géométrique
non
instanciable,
racine
de
l'ontologie
des
primiFves
géométriques.
Une
géométrie
est
associée
à
un
système
de
coordonnées
et
un
seul."@fr;
rdfs:label
"Géométrie"@fr,
"Geometry"@en;
owl:equivalentClass
[
a
owl:Restric8on;
owl:onClass
ignf:CoordinatesSystem;
owl:onProperty
geom:crs;
owl:qualifiedCardinality
"1"^^xsd:nonNega8veInteger];
rdfs:subClassOf
ngeo:Geometry;
rdfs:subClassOf
sf:Geometry.

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ASSOCIATING
CRS
TO
GEOMETRIES
§ REQUIREMENTS FOR CRS
Identified by dereferenceable URI
Identified by intuitive names
All French CRS (even deprecated CRS like “Lambert 1”, defined by IGNF
authority)
§ IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING CRS ON THE WEB
à Existing solutions
OGC
http://www.epsg-registry.org
http://www.crs-geo.eu
http://spatialrefence.org
IGNF registry

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ASSOCIATING
CRS
TO
GEOMETRIES
§ A VOCABULARY FOR DESCRIBING CRS
à Subset of ISO 19111 model
à Available at http://data.ign.fr/def/ignf
§ A DATASET OF FRENCH CRS
à Converted from XML data published by IGN France to RDF with Datalift
à Eg: “Lambert 2 étendu” http://data.ign.fr/id/ignf/crs/NTFLAMB2E

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VOCABULARY
FOR
GEOMETRY
! Adding properties and restrictions for structured geometries
geom:Point
a
owl:Class;
rdfs:label
"Point"@en,
"Point"@fr;
rdfs:subClassOf
geom:Geometry;
rdfs:subClassOf
sf:Point;
owl:equivalentClass
[
a
owl:Class
;
owl:intersecFonOf
(
[
a
owl:RestricFon;
owl:onDataRange
xsd:double;
owl:onProperty
geom:coordY;
owl:qualifiedCardinality
1"^^xsd:nonNegaFveInteger
]
[
a
owl:RestricFon;
owl:onDataRange
xsd:double;
owl:onProperty
geom:coordX;
owl:qualifiedCardinality
"1"^^xsd:nonNegaFveInteger]
[
a
owl:RestricFon;
owl:onDataRange
xsd:double;
owl:onProperty
geom:coordZ;
owl:maxQualifiedCardinality
"1"^^xsd:nonNegaFveInteger]
[…]
)].

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VOCABULARY
FOR
GEOMETRY
! Defining linestrings as ordered lists of points
! Defining linear rings as ordered and circular lists of points
geom:LineString a owl:Class;
rdfs:label "Line string"@en, "Polyligne"@fr;
rdfs:subClassOf geom:Curve;
rdfs:subClassOf [
a owl:Restriction;
owl:onClass geom:PointsList;
owl:onProperty geom:points;
owl:qualifiedCardinality "1"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ];
rdfs:subClassOf sf:LineString.
geom:PointsList a owl:Class;
rdfs:comment "Ordered list of points."@en;
rdfs:label "List of points"@en,"Liste de points"@fr;
rdfs:subClassOf rdf:List;
rdfs:subClassOf [
a owl:Restriction;
owl:allValuesFrom geom:Point;
owl:onProperty rdf:first].
1
2
3
4
8
7
6
5
9
Different interpretations
of the same list of points
may lead to different
linestrings

23. 23
PUBLISHING
GEOFLA
DATASET
L(O)D
RDF
Data
linking
SW
RDF
RDF
2
RDF
Raw
RDF
xxx
2
RDF
h^p://data.ign.fr/def/geofla
Mapping
h^p://data.ign.fr/def/geometrie
CRS
Dataset
Geofla®
shapefiles
h^p://rdf.insee.fr

24. 24
PUBLISHING
GEOFLA
DATASET
L(O)D
RDF
Data
linking
SW
RDF
RDF
2
RDF
Raw
RDF
xxx
2
RDF
NUTS
h^p://data.ign.fr/def/geofla
Mapping
h^p://data.ign.fr/def/geometrie
CRS
Dataset
Geofla®
shapefiles
INSEE
GADM
LIMES
:
labels
105
correct
matches
14
communes,
75
departments
and
16
regions
LIMES:
labels
of
communes
23252
links
created
13435
missing
communes
SILK:
INSEE
code
and
labels
of
departments
93
correct
matches
3
missing
departments
LIMES:
labels
70
correct
matches
10
communes,
51
departments,
9
regions
DBpedia
FR

25. 25
PUBLISHING
GEOFLA
DATASET
rgeofla:commune/65032 a geofla:Commune
rdfs:label “ ARRENS-MARSOUS ” @fr
geom:geometry rgeofla:commune/Multipolygon _6182
geofa:siegeDuChefLieu rgeofla:commune/PointChf_65032
owl:sameAs <http://id/insee.fr/geo/commune/65032>.
rgeofla:commune/Multipolygon _6182 a geom:MultiPolygon
gsp:asWKT “ <http://data.ign.fr/id/crs/WGS84GDD>
MULTIPOLYGON (((-0.24335582250116848
42.82314107702203 …..))) ” gsp:wktLiteral
geom:crs <http://data.ign.fr/id/crs/WGS84GDD>
…
rgeofla:commune/PointChf_65032 a geom:Point
gsp:asWKT “ <http://data.ign.fr/id/crs/RGF93LAMB93>
POINT(433500 6206700) ” gsp:wktLiteral
geom:crs <http:// data.ign.fr/id/crs/RGF93LAMB93 >
geom:coordX “ 433500 ” xsd:double
geom:coordY “ 6206700 ”xsd:double
…

26. 26
L(O)D
RDF
103
413
features
Data
linking
SW
RDF
RDF
2
RDF
Raw
RDF
xxx
2
RDF
h^p://data.ign.fr/def/topo
Mapping
h^p://data.ign.fr/def/geometrie
CRS
Dataset
Geofla®
shapefiles
LIMES:
geometries,
threshold
0,9
654
links
created
LinkedGeoData:
lgdo:Amenity
5
543
000
triples
CONVERTING
AND
LINKING
FRENCH
GAZETTEER

27. 27
OPPORTUNITIES
AND
CHALLENGES
§ RESOURCES FOR DIRECT AND INDIRECT GEOREFERENCING OF
DATA
§ NEED FOR INTEROPERABLE GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCE DATA
à For data users
à For data producers
§ MANAGING DATA UPDATES
à Versioning
à Spatio-temporal evolutions
§ MULTIPLE REPRESENTATION: NEED FOR METADATA?
à Level of detail
à Geometry modeling rules

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THANK
YOU
FOR
YOUR
ATTENTION