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GeographicalName: sourceOfName

Open bfrichet3 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Dear

I hope you are all right.

As discussed in another ticket, I think we should change the value type of sourceOfName attribute (from GeographicalName featuretype). As you may know that attribute aims to describe in a human readable way the source of a GeographicalName object.

Regulation 1089/2010 states that field has to be filled with a CharacterString object. That kind of objects aims to express some human readable in one language. As you may know in Belgium we do have three national languages. Even for a Dutch name (for instance "Antwerpen") I do have to express the sourceOfName attribute in both Dutch and French to comply with belgian legislation: the language of the GeographicalName itself does not matter.

That's why I think that LocalisedCharacterString is by far more relevant than CharacterString. With such a value type, one can express in many languages the origin of a specific GeographicalName in a give language. Therefore, the cardinality of sourceOfName should become 1-...

Regards

bfrichet3 avatar Dec 22 '22 09:12 bfrichet3