OpenAtlas

Like discussed in the meeting and the meeting with Welterbe:

A hierarchy for places would help a lot to structure place data, e.g. a forest exists which overlaps multiple other places and the places should be still places and not features of the forest. The question is how to deal with that.

One possibility would be to allow multiple places as super for one sub.
This should be possible from the technical and model perspective but we should think carefully about the implications and if they are worth these additions.

Some thoughts about that, e.g. if we allow this "freely", e.g. over places, features, stratigraphic units, artifacts and human remains:

• It won't be possible anymore to show this as a hierarchical visual presentation if there are multiple supers, especially if they are not on the same level.
• There would always be the danger of recursive connections. Of course we can try to intercept them but at e.g. imports this can get really complicated and error prone.
• If we want to implement checks that the geolocations of subs are really in the regions of their supers, this would get more complicate too
• ...

Update November 2025
Current approach would be to implement that places can be subs of other places. Although this won't solve overlapping multiple places it would still be very helpful with structuring places.