FerryLink

A FerryLink is a linear spatial object which represents the connectivity of a vehicular ferry route across a body of water. A FerryLink will only be captured where the route is limited to pedestrians only and both terminals are within Great Britain, and there is a timetabled service which is open to the public.

The context diagram shows how the FerryLink has been inherited from INSPIRE, the attribution held on the FerryLink and how it relates to the other Ferry components.

Context Diagram: FerryLink, FerryNode and FerryTerminal

FerryLink Attributes

A network link representing a route for a vehicular or pedestrian ferry route.

id

Unique identifier; for FerryLink, this is a TOID.

• Attribute name: gml_id (GML), toid (GeoPackage), toid (Vector Tiles)

• Type: CharacterString

• Size: 20

• Multiplicity: [1]

identifier

Uniform Resource Identifier.

• Attribute name: identifier (GML), identifier (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: CharacterString

• Size: 37

• Multiplicity: [1]

inspireId

External object identifier of the spatial object.

• Attribute name: inspireId

• Type: Identifier

• Multiplicity: [0..1]

beginLifespanVersion

Date and time at which this version of the spatial object was inserted or changed in the spatial data set.

The time part is always set to zero.

• Attribute name: beginLifespanVersion (GML), begin_lifespan_version (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: DateTime

• Multiplicity: [1]

centrelineGeometry

The three-dimensional geometry that represents the connection between the ferry terminals. Where a detailed alignment is provided it is only an indication of the route a vessel would take. The third dimension is only provided for connectivity and does not reflect any real-world value.

• Attribute name: Not provided (GML), geometry (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: GM_Curve

• Multiplicity: [1]

fictitious

Indicator that the centreline geometry of the link is a straight line with no intermediate control points – unless the straight line represents the geography in the resolution of the data set appropriately.

• Attribute name: fictitious (GML), fictitious (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: Boolean

• Size: 5

• Multiplicity: [1]

validFrom

The time when the transport node started to exist in the real world.

The time part is always set to zero.

• Attribute name: validFrom (GML), valid_from (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: DateTime

• Multiplicity: [1]

vehicularFerry

An indicator if this FerryLink represents a ferry that can be used by vehicles.

This will always be set to false in the Path Network product.

• Attribute name: vehicularFerry (GML), vehicular_ferry (GeoPackage), vehicular_ferry (Vector Tiles)

• Type: Boolean

• Size: 5

• Multiplicity: [1]

routeOperator

The URL to the operator of this Ferry route.

• Attribute name: routeOperator (GML), route_operator (GeoPackage), route_operator (Vector Tiles)

• Type: CharacterString

• Size: 250

• Multiplicity: [0..1]

reasonForChange

The reason for a change made to a feature.

• Attribute name:reasonForChange (GML), reason_for_change (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Type: ChangeValue

• Size: 32

• Multiplicity: [1]

startNode

The node coincident with the first vertex of the geometry attribute.

• Attribute name: startNode (GML), start_node (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Size: 20

• Multiplicity: [0..1]

endNode

The node coincident with the last vertex of the geometry attribute.

• Attribute name: endNode (GML), end_node (GeoPackage), Not provided (Vector Tiles)

• Size: 20

• Multiplicity: [0..1]