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GIS
1998
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Natural-Language Spatial Relations Between Linear and Areal Objects: The Topology and Metric of English-Language Terms
Spatial relations are the basis for many selections users perform when they query geographic information systems (GISs). Although such query languages use natural-language-like te...
A. Rashid B. M. Shariff, Max J. Egenhofer, David M...
SSD
2005
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Semantic Caching for Multiresolution Spatial Query Processing in Mobile Environments
Spatial data are particularly useful in mobile environments. However, due to the low bandwidth of most wireless networks, developing large spatial database applications becomes a c...
Sai Sun, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen
FLAIRS
2003
14 years 8 days ago
Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval with Graph-Based Qualitative Reference Models
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
Thomas Vögele, Christoph Schlieder
SOFTWARE
1998
13 years 10 months ago
A New Way to Query GISs on the Web
BMS organizes information in abstract name spaces and lets users refer to thedatathroughtheirvalues,whileaspatialDBMSorganizesinformationinconcrete 2D geometric spaces and lets use...
Serena Coetzee, Judith Bishop
EDBTW
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Towards Similarity-Based Topological Query Languages
Abstract. In recent times, the proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much larger audience to access and share data currently available in various Ge...
Alberto Belussi, Omar Boucelma, Barbara Catania, Y...