ISO5087-2:City

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The City Ontology combines basic information about the: • land area occupied by a city, • divisions of the city, e.g., districts, wards, neighbourhoods, and • government organization that runs a city.

A City has the following properties: • schema:legalName: The legal name of the city. • hasLandArea: identifies the spatial areas occupied by the city. • hasGovernment: identifies the GovernmentOrganization that manages the city. • hasBylaw: identifies the bylaws in existence in the city. • 5087-1:hasProperPart:: identifies spatial subdivisions of a city. They do not have to be distinct and can be hierarchical. A CityDivision can be specialized for use by a City to reflect its unique subdivisions such as Districts, Wards, Neighbourhoods, Prefectures, etc.

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Annotations

Annotation	Value

Manchester Syntax Specification

Property	Restriction	Value
Schema:legalName	exactly 1	xsd:string
HasLandArea	only	LandArea
HasGovernment	only	GovernmentOrganization
HasBylaw	only	Bylaw
HasProperPart	only	CityDivision

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