A URI that identifies the location.
GeoNames.org provides stable, widely recognised identifiers for more than 10 million geographical names that can be used as links to further information. For example, http://sws.geonames.org/593116/ identifies the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Unfortunately these URIs cannot easily be automatically deduced since the URI scheme uses simple numeric codes. Finding a GeoNames identifier for a location is almost always a manual process. Where such identifiers are known or can be found, however, it is recommended to use them. Where the Location class is used to identify a country, if the GeoNames URI is not known, the recommendation is to use the URI from the Named Authority List (NAL) for countries of the Publications Office of the EU. As noted for the Georaphic Name property, the EU's Publication Office diverges from ISO 3166-1 and uses EL and UK for Greece and the United Kingdom respectively.
| type | Property |
| label | Geographic Identifier (LocationGeographicIdentifier) |
| rdfs:range | URI |
| Title | Geographic Identifier (LocationGeographicIdentifier) |
| definition | A URI that identifies the location. |
| Description | GeoNames.org provides stable, widely recognised identifiers for more than 10 million geographical names that can be used as links to further information. For example, http://sws.geonames.org/593116/ identifies the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Unfortunately these URIs cannot easily be automatically deduced since the URI scheme uses simple numeric codes. Finding a GeoNames identifier for a location is almost always a manual process. Where such identifiers are known or can be found, however, it is recommended to use them. Where the Location class is used to identify a country, if the GeoNames URI is not known, the recommendation is to use the URI from the Named Authority List (NAL) for countries of the Publications Office of the EU. As noted for the Georaphic Name property, the EU's Publication Office diverges from ISO 3166-1 and uses EL and UK for Greece and the United Kingdom respectively. |
| Type | Property |
| has internal identifier | LocationGeographicIdentifier |
| sample | "http://sws.geonames.org/593116/", "http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/AUT" |
| Is Part Of | Core Vocabulary |
| Location |