GeoSPARQL support

What is GeoSPARQL

GeoSPARQL is a standard for representing and querying geospatial linked data for the Semantic Web from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).The standard provides:

  • a small topological ontology in RDFS/OWL for representation using Geography Markup Language (GML) and Well-Known Text (WKT) literals;
  • Simple Features, RCC8, and DE-9IM (a.k.a. Egenhofer) topological relationship vocabularies and ontologies for qualitative reasoning;
  • a SPARQL query interface using a set of topological SPARQL extension functions for quantitative reasoning.

The following is a simplified diagram of some geometry classes and properties:

_images/GeoSPARQL-geometry.png

Usage

Plugin control predicates

The plugin allows you to configure it through SPARQL UPDATE queries with embedded control predicates.

Enable plugin

When the plugin is enabled, it indexes all existing GeoSPARQL data in the repository and automatically reindexes any updates.

PREFIX : <http://www.ontotext.com/plugins/geosparql#>

INSERT DATA {
  _:s :enabled "true" .
}

Disable plugin

When the plugin is disabled, it does not index any data or process updates. It does not handle any of the GeoSPARQL predicates either.

PREFIX : <http://www.ontotext.com/plugins/geosparql#>

INSERT DATA {
  _:s :enabled "false" .
}

Force reindex GeoSPARQL geometry data

This configuration option is usually used when index files are either corrupted or have been mistakenly deleted.

PREFIX : <http://www.ontotext.com/plugins/geosparql#>

INSERT DATA {
    _:s :forceReindex ""
}

GeoSPARQL predicates

The following are some examples of select queries on geographic data.

For demo purposes, just import the following files:

and run the following queries on them:

Example 1

PREFIX my: <http://example.org/ApplicationSchema#>
PREFIX geo: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#>
PREFIX geof: <http://www.opengis.net/def/function/geosparql/>

SELECT ?f
WHERE {
    my:A my:hasExactGeometry ?aGeom .
    ?aGeom geo:asWKT ?aWKT .
    ?f my:hasExactGeometry ?fGeom .
    ?fGeom geo:asWKT ?fWKT .
    FILTER (geof:sfContains(?aWKT, ?fWKT) && !sameTerm(?aGeom, ?fGeom))
}

Example 2

PREFIX my: <http://example.org/ApplicationSchema#>
PREFIX geo: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#>
PREFIX geof: <http://www.opengis.net/def/function/geosparql/>

SELECT ?f
WHERE {
    ?f my:hasPointGeometry ?fGeom .
    ?fGeom geo:asWKT ?fWKT .
    FILTER (geof:sfWithin(?fWKT, '''
        <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84>
        Polygon ((-83.4 34.0, -83.1 34.0, -83.1 34.2, -83.4 34.2, -83.4 34.0))
        '''^^geo:wktLiteral))
}

Example 3

PREFIX my: <http://example.org/ApplicationSchema#>
PREFIX geo: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#>
PREFIX geof: <http://www.opengis.net/def/function/geosparql/>

SELECT ?f
WHERE {
    ?f my:hasExactGeometry ?fGeom .
    ?fGeom geo:asWKT ?fWKT .
    my:A my:hasExactGeometry ?aGeom .
    ?aGeom geo:asWKT ?aWKT .
    my:D my:hasExactGeometry ?dGeom .
    ?dGeom geo:asWKT ?dWKT .
    FILTER (geof:sfTouches(?fWKT, geof:union(?aWKT, ?dWKT)))
}

Example 4

PREFIX uom: <http://www.opengis.net/def/uom/OGC/1.0/>
PREFIX my: <http://example.org/ApplicationSchema#>
PREFIX geo: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#>
PREFIX geof: <http://www.opengis.net/def/function/geosparql/>

SELECT ?f
WHERE {
    my:C my:hasExactGeometry ?cGeom .
    ?cGeom geo:asWKT ?cWKT .
    ?f my:hasExactGeometry ?fGeom .
    ?fGeom geo:asWKT ?fWKT .
    FILTER (?fGeom != ?cGeom)
} ORDER BY ASC(geof:distance(?cWKT, ?fWKT, uom:metre)) LIMIT 3

Example 5

PREFIX geo: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#>
PREFIX my: <http://example.org/ApplicationSchema#>

SELECT ?f
WHERE {
    ?f geo:sfOverlaps my:AExactGeom
}

Example 6

Note

Using geometry literals in the object position is a GraphDB extension and not part of the GeoSPARQL specification.

PREFIX geo: <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#>
PREFIX my: <http://example.org/ApplicationSchema#>

SELECT ?f
WHERE {
    ?f geo:sfOverlaps
        "Polygon((-83.6 34.1, -83.2 34.1, -83.2 34.5, -83.6 34.5, -83.6 34.1))"^^geo:wktLiteral
}

Tip

For more information about GeoSPARQL predicates and functions, see the current official spec: OGC 11-052r4, Version: 1.0, Approval Date: 2012-04-27, Publication Date: 2012-09-10.