Representation of geographic concepts地理概念的表述.ppt

Representation of geographic concepts Geog 495: GIS database design November 7, 2005 Outlines [D] Review of the article: Egenhofer et al 1999 Discussion will be focused on Relational DB and GIS Cognitive approach to GIS GIS and DBMS GISystems and GIServices [L] Representation of spatial entity Lecture is organized into three parts Spatial data model Spatial data structure Design consideration DB implementation of geographic concepts is divided into three subfields in GIScience Spatial data model/spatial query language Spatial data type/operators Spatial access method Q. What are they about? Q. Indicate a level of abstraction for each Q. What are different focuses on these? Mathematics and GIS It is said that database implementation of geographic concepts heavily borrows from mathematics. So which subfields of mathematics are influential in the followings? Representation of geographic entities e.g. Spatial primitives of vector data (point, line, polygon) Representation of spatial relationships e.g. Connectivity in road network Database and GIS Since most of GIS is implemented using RDB, let’s focus on RDB. Examples: building Country database, how can you store geometric features of Country in table? Is multi-valued attribute allowed? Then break it down to 4NF. And then… What about query such as displaying boundary of France? What about query such as returning adjacent countries of France? Now generalizing your point, go to the next slide Inadequacy of RDB to GIS What is the inadequacy of employing relational database model for representing geographic concepts? What is the legacy of storing spatial information in relational database when creating GIS database? How can we accommodate this problem? Think from different perspectives. If you are DB developer, If you are network administrator who makes decision on GIS/DBMS purchase, if you work in ISO committee, if you are a researcher... Cognitive approach to GIS Do you agree with authors’ view on cognitive appro