# shape of Buffalo

shape of Buffalo is a boundary representation.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a8-dfee-76c8-b7bb-60d742142ab9>

Type: [geo:Geometry](http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Geometry), [boundary representation](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/BoundaryRepresentation)

Location: 39.85033, -89.40914 (box -89.41555, 39.84614, -89.40272, 39.85451; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [census-tiger-feature 2025/1600000US1709434](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a8-dfee-76c8-b7bb-60e243f435cb)
- `dcterms:date`: 2025-01-01 (xsd:date)
- `dcterms:source`: [Census TIGER/Line 2025: places, state 17](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a7-ff14-7108-90b2-44d74d759a9b)
- `geo:asWKT`: <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS83> POLYGON ((-89.41555 39.846189, -89.402811 39.846143, -89.402722 39.852691, -89.405852 39.852602, -89.405838 39.854509, -89.411274 39.85451, -89.411268 39.852945, -89.415491 39.852937, -89.415532 39.848302, -89.41555 39.846189)) (geo:wktLiteral)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 893368 (xsd:double)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`: [evidence from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/PLACE/tl\_2025\_17\_place.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a8-dfed-739c-b039-457bfd02798e)
- **simplification tolerance** (`bcgeo:simplificationTolerance`): 25 (xsd:double)

## Elsewhere

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=39.85033&mlon=-89.40914#map=14/39.85033/-89.40914) (39.85033, -89.40914)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=39.85033,-89.40914)
- [Source](https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/PLACE/tl_2025_17_place.zip) (www2.census.gov)

## Pointing here

- Default geometry of (1; `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`):
  - [Buffalo](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-abb3-76c9-bb04-6715b2ffbfd9)
- Geometry of (1; `geo:hasGeometry`):
  - [Buffalo](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-abb3-76c9-bb04-6715b2ffbfd9)

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Cite as: shape of Buffalo. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a8-dfee-76c8-b7bb-60d742142ab9
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