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Neighbourhood (AL024)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: al024.ttl
- Name
Neighbourhood- Kind
- FeatureType
- Definition
- A populated place whose name and boundaries are determined by the residence and/or activities of a culturally defined population.
- Description
- A neighbourhood is an area where residents relate to each other based on common aspects in ethnicity, cultural behavior, and/or social environment. There is usually an identifiable subculture of commonality to which the majority of the residents conform. A neighbourhood may de distinguished by a localized street pattern. Its geographic limits are characterized by the location of the inhabitants and based almost entirely on where they live and/or work. Neighbourhoods are usually a constituent part of a larger populated place or built-up area.
- Accepted
- 2022-08-18
- Geometry
- point, curve, surface
- Subtype of
- AL022 Populated Place
- Attributes
- NDX Neighbourhood-defining Characteristic — multiplicity 0..*; datatype Neighbourhood_neighbourhoodDefiningCharacteristicMeta; values: NDX_1 Economic Activity, NDX_2 Ethnicity, NDX_3 Historical, NDX_4 Linguistics, NDX_5 Physical Structure, NDX_6 Religion, NDX_7 Socioeconomics
- RWOI terms naming it
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.