Location¶
A location is a point or area of interest from which a particular product or service is available, e.g. a store, a bus stop, a gas station, or a ticket booth. The difference to gr:BusinessEntity is that the gr:BusinessEntity is the legal entity (e.g. a person or corporation) making the offer, while gr:Location is the store, office, or place. A chain restaurant will e.g. have one legal entity but multiple restaurant locations. Locations are characterized by an address or geographical position and a set of opening hour specifications for various days of the week.
Example: A rental car company may offer the Business Function Lease Out of cars from two locations, one in Fort Myers, Florida, and one in Boston, Massachussetts. Both stations are open 7:00 - 23:00 Mondays through Saturdays.
Note: Typical address standards (vcard) and location data (geo, WGC84) should be attached to a gr:Location node. Since there already exist established vocabularies for this, the GoodRelations ontology does not provide respective attributes. Instead, the use of respective vocabularies is recommended. However, the gr:hasGlobalLocationNumber property is provided for linking to public identifiers for business locations.
Compatibility with schema.org: This class is equivalent to http://schema.org/Place.
Diagram¶
Formalization for Location¶
| Property | Constraint |
|---|---|
| category | datatype rdfs:Literal |
| description | datatype rdfs:Literal |
| hasGlobalLocationNumber | datatype xsd:string |
| hasISICv4 | datatype xsd:int |
| hasOpeningHoursSpecification | only OpeningHoursSpecification |
| name | datatype rdfs:Literal |
| disjointWith | Brand |
| disjointWith | BusinessEntity |
| disjointWith | BusinessEntityType |
| disjointWith | BusinessFunction |
| disjointWith | DayOfWeek |
| disjointWith | DeliveryMethod |
| disjointWith | Offering |
| disjointWith | OpeningHoursSpecification |
| disjointWith | PaymentMethod |
| disjointWith | PriceSpecification |
| disjointWith | QuantitativeValue |
| disjointWith | TypeAndQuantityNode |
| disjointWith | WarrantyPromise |
| disjointWith | WarrantyScope |