IngentaConnect Database design for a multi-scale spatial information system

Authors: C.B. Jones; D.B. Kidner; L.Q. Luo; G. Ll. Bundy; J.M. Ware

Source: Geographical Information Systems, Volume 10, Number 8, 1 December 1996 , pp. 901-920(20)

Abstract:

Growth in the available quantities of digital geographical data has led to major problems in maintaining and integrating data from multiple sources, required by users at differing levels of generalization. Existing GIS and associated database management systems provide few facilities specifically intended for handling spatial data at multiple scales and require time consuming manual intervention to control update and retain consistency between representations. In this paper the GEODYSSEY conceptual design for a multi-scale, multiple representation spatial database is presented and the results of experimental implementation of several aspects of the design are described. Object-oriented, deductive and procedural programming techniques have been applied in several contexts: automated update software, using probabilistic reasoning; deductive query processing using explicit stored semantic and spatial relations combined with geometric data; multiresolution spatial data access methods combining point, line, area and surface geometry; and triangulation-based generalization software that detects and resolves topological inconsistency.

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