# shape of Philadelphia

shape of Philadelphia is a boundary representation.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-08c7-718c-b9a0-4a4f7ef713e1>

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

Location: 44.15434, -75.70968 (box -75.72061, 44.14346, -75.69875, 44.16521; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [census-tiger-feature 2025/1600000US3657551](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-08c8-714a-ba63-55f755787f66)
- `dcterms:date`: 2025-01-01 (xsd:date)
- `dcterms:source`: [Census TIGER/Line 2025: places, state 36](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a7-ff26-75b4-8e37-92783023863b)
- `geo:asWKT`: <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS83> POLYGON ((-75.714523 44.148272, -75.717557 44.146632, -75.716742 44.145669, -75.719474 44.145259, -75.720553 44.144471, -75.718659 44.143581, -75.718083 44.143923, -75.717647 44.143463, -75.715821 44.1442, -75.716188 44.144758, -75.712835 44.146376, -75.712241 44.145526, -75.711033 44.146374, -75.70834 44.144643, -75.698747 44.151384, -75.701077 44.159098, -75.713025 44.165211, -75.72061 44.151589, -75.714523 44.148272)) (geo:wktLiteral)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 2480634 (xsd:double)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`: [evidence from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/PLACE/tl\_2025\_36\_place.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-08c7-718c-b9a0-4a4eb43d8727)
- **simplification tolerance** (`bcgeo:simplificationTolerance`): 25 (xsd:double)

## Elsewhere

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=44.15434&mlon=-75.70968#map=14/44.15434/-75.70968) (44.15434, -75.70968)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=44.15434,-75.70968)
- [Source](https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/PLACE/tl_2025_36_place.zip) (www2.census.gov)

## Pointing here

- Default geometry of (1; `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`):
  - [Philadelphia](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-b0a1-757b-868a-ba548427599a)
- Geometry of (1; `geo:hasGeometry`):
  - [Philadelphia](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-b0a1-757b-868a-ba548427599a)

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Cite as: shape of Philadelphia. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a9-08c7-718c-b9a0-4a4f7ef713e1
Release 0.1.0-rc12, graph hash a20f66b983549f220c6f061b7e40233771a06aa47a0c0aede95a2a57ee2e9553.