Position attributes

Position Attributes

A position longitude and latitude coordinate for a projected coordinate system.

query {
  # Supported on place or any other type with a Position
  place(id: "place/facebook:page:mavisthegrocer") {
    # The position type represents a coordinate (longitude and latitude)
    position {
      # Coordinate References
      lon
      lat
      # latLon, lonLat etc if preferred to access as an array

      # Access the timezone at the coordinate
      timezone: attrValue(id: "place/time-zone")
      # Access the currency for the country
      currency: attrValue(id: "place/country-currency")

      # Further information, such as regions..
      iso3166: attrValue(id: "place/iso-3166-2")

      # Australian information, such as locality, gov, etc
      locality: attrValue(id: "place/abs:locality")
      lga: attrValue(id: "place/abs:local-government-area")
      electoral: attrValue(id: "place/abs:commonwealth-electoral-division")
      tourismRegion: attrValue(id: "place/abs:tourism-region")
    }
  }
}

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Projected Coordinate System

Alpaca has adopted the EPSG:3857 projected coordinate system used for rendering maps in Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Mapbox etc.

Accessing information about a coordinate

Alpaca provides extended attributes about a supplied coordinate reference to allow developers a easy way to access further information about the location.

Geographical Attributes

To assist in macro global geographical placement of places, the following attributes are available.

ID	Name	Type
place/iso-3166-2	ISO-3166-2	string
place/iso-3166-1-alpha-2	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2	string
place/iso-3166-1-alpha-3	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3	string
place/continent	Continent	string
place/subregion	Subregion	string
place/region-wb	Region (World Bank)	string
place/region-un	Region (United Nations)	string
place/country	Country	string
place/country-formal-name	Country Formal Name	string
place/region	Region	string
place/region-abbreviation	Region (Abbrev)	string
place/time-zone	Time zone	string
place/country-currency	Currency	object

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

To assist in geographical placement against ABS data, the following place attributes are available in Australia.

ID	Name	Type
place/abs:local-government-area	Local Government Area	string
place/abs:local-government-area-code	Local Government Area Code	string
place/abs:tourism-region	Tourism Region	string
place/abs:tourism-region-code	Tourism Region Code	string
place/abs:commonwealth-electoral-division	Commonwealth Electoral Division	string
place/abs:commonwealth-electoral-division-code	Commonwealth Electoral Division Code	string
place/abs:region	State	string
place/abs:state-code	State Code	string
place/abs:state-suburb-code	State Suburb Code	string
place/abs:locality	Locality	string
place/abs:postal-code	Postal code	string

ABS data is obtained from the latest available data sets, which are updated in line with the census data. The next census data is due June 2022.

Wine Australia

To assist in geographical placement against Wine Australia information, the following attributes are available in Australia.

ID	Name	Type
place/wineaustralia:zone	Wine Zone	string
place/wineaustralia:zone-number	Wine Zone (number)	number
place/wineaustralia:region	Wine Region	string
place/wineaustralia:region-number	Wine Region (number)	number
place/wineaustralia:subregion	Wine Subregion	string
place/wineaustralia:subregion-number	Wine Subregion (number)	number