The user may define subclasses of this class.
A partitioned coverage consists of a series of discrete geographic objects, which may be of the same class or of different classes. Because PartitionedCoverage os a subclass of GeographicObject, recursion is possible. That is, a partitioned coverage can be defined in terms of other coverages.
The components composing the coverage are not necessarily space filling. Overlap of n-dimensional components in an n-dimensional space is not allowed. For example, areal features in a 2D space cannot overlap although they may be adjacent.