# shape of Virginia

shape of Virginia is a boundary representation.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-03ae-754b-8785-d42a7f2a6c5f>

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

Location: 40.24583, -96.49878 (box -96.50168, 40.24281, -96.49587, 40.24885; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [census-tiger-feature 2025/1600000US3150790](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-03af-779b-9fc7-c981811b9d10)
- `dcterms:date`: 2025-01-01 (xsd:date)
- `dcterms:source`: [Census TIGER/Line 2025: places, state 31](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a7-ff23-7443-a9b5-02e77a3bfee0)
- `geo:asWKT`: <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS83> POLYGON ((-96.501644 40.243785, -96.499643 40.243808, -96.499701 40.243216, -96.498846 40.243204, -96.498767 40.243811, -96.497374 40.243833, -96.497402 40.242831, -96.496035 40.242814, -96.495875 40.247776, -96.501676 40.248851, -96.501644 40.243785)) (geo:wktLiteral)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 256511 (xsd:double)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`: [evidence from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/PLACE/tl\_2025\_31\_place.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-03ae-754b-8785-d429c4f58146)
- **simplification tolerance** (`bcgeo:simplificationTolerance`): 25 (xsd:double)

## Elsewhere

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=40.24583&mlon=-96.49878#map=14/40.24583/-96.49878) (40.24583, -96.49878)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=40.24583,-96.49878)
- [Source](https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/PLACE/tl_2025_31_place.zip) (www2.census.gov)

## Pointing here

- Default geometry of (1; `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`):
  - [Virginia](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-a438-7669-ac09-406b7c558a3f)
- Geometry of (1; `geo:hasGeometry`):
  - [Virginia](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-a438-7669-ac09-406b7c558a3f)

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Cite as: shape of Virginia. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-03ae-754b-8785-d42a7f2a6c5f
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