GeoShape
The geographic shape of a place. A GeoShape can be described using several properties whose values are based on latitude/longitude pairs. Either whitespace or commas can be used to separate latitude and longitude; whitespace should be used when writing a list of several such points.
Usage: Between 100 and 1000 domains
Property | Expected Type | Description |
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Properties from GeoShape | ||
address
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PostalAddress or Text | Physical address of the item. |
addressCountry
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Country or Text | The country. For example, USA. You can also provide the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. |
box
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Text | A box is the area enclosed by the rectangle formed by two points. The first point is the lower corner, the second point is the upper corner. A box is expressed as two points separated by a space character. |
circle
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Text | A circle is the circular region of a specified radius centered at a specified latitude and longitude. A circle is expressed as a pair followed by a radius in meters. |
elevation
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Text or Number | The elevation of a location (WGS 84). |
line
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Text | A line is a point-to-point path consisting of two or more points. A line is expressed as a series of two or more point objects separated by space. |
polygon
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Text | A polygon is the area enclosed by a point-to-point path for which the starting and ending points are the same. A polygon is expressed as a series of four or more space delimited points where the first and final points are identical. |
postalCode
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Text | The postal code. For example, 94043. |
Properties from Thing | ||
additionalType
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URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally. |
alternateName
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Text | An alias for the item. |
description
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Text | A short description of the item. |
image
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ImageObject or URL | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
mainEntityOfPage
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CreativeWork or URL | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described.
See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity. |
name
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Text | The name of the item. |
potentialAction
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Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
sameAs
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URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website. |
url
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URL | URL of the item. |
Instances of GeoShape may appear as values for the following properties
Property | On Types | Description |
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areaServed
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ContactPoint or Organization or Offer or Demand or DeliveryChargeSpecification or Service | The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided. Supersedes serviceArea. |
eligibleRegion
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Offer or DeliveryChargeSpecification or Demand | The ISO 3166-1 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) or ISO 3166-2 code, the place, or the GeoShape for the geo-political region(s) for which the offer or delivery charge specification is valid.
See also ineligibleRegion. |
geo
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Place | The geo coordinates of the place. |
ineligibleRegion
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Offer or DeliveryChargeSpecification or Demand | The ISO 3166-1 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) or ISO 3166-2 code, the place, or the GeoShape for the geo-political region(s) for which the offer or delivery charge specification is not valid, e.g. a region where the transaction is not allowed.
See also eligibleRegion. |
More specific Types
Acknowledgements
This class contains derivatives of IPTC rNews properties. rNews is a data model of publishing metadata with serializations currently available for RDFa as well as HTML5 Microdata. More information about the IPTC and rNews can be found at rnews.org.Schema Version 2.2