From: Pete Haglich (phaglic@isx.com)
Date: 03/10/03
We have adopted that in our current spatial ontologies, using the term "locus" because "location" had connotations to our customer. The notion of "locus" has child subclasses of Point Locus, Linear Locus, Area Locus, and Volume Locus. We find that the blurring of distinction between point and area is sometimes useful when discussing things like cities. For some purposes they are usefully modeled as points, in other cases, it is more appropriate to reference the associated territory within the city limits. On Friday, Mar 7, 2003, at 14:55 US/Eastern, Austin Tate wrote: > The idea being that a neutral word like location which does not > restrict > the meaning to be only one of a "point" or "area" or "volume" and > leaves > nature of the "location" open can be useful to allow relationships to > be > stated to give real meaning. -- Pete Haglich, ISX Corporation Virginia Beach, VA Mobile (757) 572-5913
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