An Ontology of spatial relations, extending the location relations from DOLCE. OWL engineering by Aldo Gangemi.
Analytical location holding between physical endurants and spatial regions.
A spatial location relation holding between any two entities but regions. It assumes a mereotopological association (part, connection, overlaps, etc.) between shared spatial regions.
Analytical indirect location holding between non-physical endurants and space regions.
A relation of approximate location holding for physical endurants. It assumes a physical region that is shared by two physical endurants. Sharedness can be any mereotopological association, but no analytical definition can be done in OWL due to the lack of role value maps.
The place of a perdurant as provided by a reference region at which the spatial quality of a certain endurant is q-located.
Approximate location of an endurant in a non-physical one. It assumes a shared region.AKA fiat-place.
Original location of an endurant in a non-physical one. It assumes a shared region between the first and the depend-on of the second (see descriptive place).
A relation of approximate location holding between any endurant and physical endurants. It assumes a shared physical region. Sharedness can be any mereotopological association, but no analytical definition can be done in OWL due to the lack of role value maps.
The physical 'origin' of a physical endurant in the space region of the spatial quality of another physical endurant.
Analytical indirect location holding between perdurants and space regions.