Geographic Entity (Lite)

a Pleiades Content Type

GeographicEntityLite is a content type provided by the GeographicEntityLiteProduct, and is being used to prototype/stand-in for GeographicEntity in the workup to milestone:"Geo Prime"

A Folderish class that, together with its subordinate components and related information, fully describes and documents any geographic item of interest, i.e., anything 'geographic' that two or more people can name, describe, indicate or locate to one another.

Fields

Always refer to the UML model for a complete and up-to-date list of attributes (fields) and related information. What follows is selective and only deals with things for which we need some discussion in the wiki:

• title
• description
• spatialCoordinates
  • Special Widget(?): GeospatialCoordinateWidget

Subordinate Components

That is, content objects contained by this content object.

• GeographicNameLite

Examples

• Populated place
• River
• Mountain
• Mountain range
• Region
• Cemetery

See also: FeatureTypes?

Models

• source:GeographicEntityLite/trunk/models/geographicEntityLite.zargo

Views

The default web view of an entity should look something like

We have a small map at the upper right of the content div. I propose that this map be fixed. We can provide a link to our slippy map.