the POINT OF INTEREST CLASSIFICATION and POINT OF INTEREST CLASSIFICATION MEMBERSHIP are used to encode a hierarchy of classifications to index and find different types of POINT OF INTEREST

For example, Educational Building, School, Primary School, or Cultural Attraction, Museum, Art Museum.

NOTE 1 to entry: POINT OF INTEREST CLASSIFICATION MEMBERSHIP does not have to be disjoint, i.e. the same category may appear in more than one CLASSIFICATION.