This model defines Location as: <br/><i>“A defined place”</i><br/>A location usually has a unique code or name to allow textual identification.<br/>Location is split into Geographic Location that relates to world centric places and Local Location, that relates to locally defined coordinate systems (usually defined relative to man-made features).<br/>A Geographic Location has an optional Geometry attribute, allowing it to be displayed on a map.<br/>As shown in following Figure we will allow a Geographic Location to have many names. A name may change over time and could be defined in more than one language. Also a location may have more than one name in the same language, or a European and native name (Ayers Rock is also known as Uluru).<br/><i>“A name is an informal way of identifying an entity” [Fowler-AP].</i><br/>