Administrative Unit: need for clarification about core-location-vocabulary

[laers]

I agree - there is a need for clarification. I would expect that Administrative Units is a way of descriping a Location, for instance Municipality XX has a name, identifier, geographical extend (borders) etc.
What about cadastral parcels and buildings? Has these kinds of locations types (?) being discussed as well?

[GeertThijs]

@laers @dimi-schepers An AdministrativeUnit is a special case of a Place. Where Place is defined as in http://purl.org/dc/terms/Location: "A SpatialRegion or NamedPlace". It has indeed a name and a geometry, inherited from Place. INSPIRE defines AdministrativeUnit as "Governance unit where a State has and/or exercises legal capacity, in the context of local, regional or national administration". Definition of dcterms:Jurisdiction is "The area over which the jurisdiction of a government extends." So actually, Jurisdiction is also a Place as it covers an area. but it is a bit different from AdministrativeUnit: a jurisdiction is about the legal capacity in an area, an AdministrativeUnit is how this legal capacity is organised as an administration. And indeed: as an AdministrativeUnit is a Place (and Jurisdiction as well), it can be used to describe a location (a spatial position), although in an indirect way, not by means of coordinates (which would be the direct way). And it is often used as Address component.

[PeterParslow]

Is the existing European Commission INSPIRE concept useful? https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/featureconcept/AdministrativeUnit

[EmidioStani]

In the last release of Core Vocabularies, the AdminUnit class has been added to define hierarchical ways, in more structured format than AdminUnitL1 and AdminUnitL2: https://semiceu.github.io/Core-Location-Vocabulary/releases/2.00/