Perspectives let you display faceted understandings of a place.
Perspectives are are a feature specific to the Places Knowledge Maps site. They let you switch between different place trees, each with a different "perspective" or focus. Perspectives don't interact with each other. They're just different place trees within Places. If you add a child to a KMap, it will stay on the same perspective tree as the parent term. Some KMaps may share names across perspectives. For example, "Charlottesville" can be considered from the "national administrative unit" perspective, but also from the "cultural regions" perspective. However, the "cultural-region Charlottesville" KMap is NOT the same as the "national-administrative Charlottesville" KMap, since they're on two different trees.
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Show places that are culturally significant, but that may not have official government designations. Only use this perspective if no other perspective fits your needs.
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Shows place designations that no longer exist, but may be are historically important.
Example: the thirteen British colonies that became the USA.
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Geographical Relationship
Shows relationships that are based purely based on location. Feature A can be "located in," , "centered in," , "near," , etc. feature B. This perspective involves only geographical criteria for relationships, with no other considerations. Don't use this for any relationship that isn't solely geographical.
Example: An ancient historical polity could be "located in" a contemporary administrative unit. This would mean the geographical area of the historical ancient polity was within the contemporary modern administrative unit: we can reference the contemporary modern place's footprint to illustrate the latter's area.
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Administrative Relationship
This is relationships a relationship between features that pertain to administration. It does not include the relationship between administrative governmental units, such as counties being within prefectures. For these, use the "administrative units" perspective.
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Shows the relationships between buildings: a single building structure might be part of a large building complex or site.
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