GeoSPARQL

Vocabulary

?feature spatial:nearby(?lat ?lon ?radius [ ?unitsURI [ ?limit]])
?spatialObject1 spatial:equals ?spatialObject2
?feature spatial:withinBox(?latMin ?lonMin ?latMax ?lonMax [ ?limit])
?feature spatial:withinBoxGeom(?geomLit1 ?geomLit2 [ ?limit])
?feature spatial:nearbyGeom(?geomLit ?radius [ ?unitsURI [ ?limit]])
?feature spatial:withinCircle(?lat ?lon ?radius [ ?unitsURI [ ?limit]])
?feature spatial:withinCircleGeom(?geomLit ?radius [ ?unitsURI [ ?limit]])
?feature spatial:intersectBox(?latMin ?lonMin ?latMax ?lonMax [ ?limit])
?feature spatial:intersectBoxGeom(?geomLit1 ?geomLit2 [ ?limit])

Examples

All data for a particular object (a hotel in Berlin)

This service runs on the new geosparql module and fuseki 4.8.0

presented by KONA LLC

SPARQL | JenaSpatial (replaced geospatial index for jena)

The GeoSPARQL release 2008 has been retired in September 2021.
The implementation 2008 was based on work by Marco Neumann first published in
"Spatially Navigating the Semantic Web"
First International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases. VLDB 2003

For further information on the new OGC GeoSPARQL standard see
OGC GeoSPARQL - A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data

recent queries

PREFIX co: <http://www.geonames.org/countries/#>
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> 
PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#>
PREFIX spatial: <http://jena.apache.org/spatial#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX gn: <http://www.geonames.org/ontology#>
PREFIX foaf:<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX loticoowl:<http://www.lotico.com/ontology/>
PREFIX units: <http://www.opengis.net/def/uom/OGC/1.0/>


SELECT ?object
WHERE  {
   ?object spatial:nearby(2 1 100 units:kilometer).
} LIMIT 10

PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>  

PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> 
PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#>
PREFIX spatial: <http://jena.apache.org/spatial#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?object
WHERE  {
?object geo:lat ?lat.
?object geo:long ?long.
FILTER((xsd:double(?lat)>=40.73) && (xsd:double(?long)>=-74) && (xsd:double(?lat)<=41) && (xsd:double(?long)<=-73.98))
} LIMIT 20