Abstract
This paper proposes a semantic geographical data model. Localization of geographical entities is defined using an abstract data type. The geographical entities' semantic is expressed through high level concepts in an entity-relationship model extended by both inheritance and propagation mechanisms.
The system's implementation is described. It takes advantage of the object-oriented aspect of the O2 DBMS, and in particular of the inheritance mechanism. Three different data structures allow to implement geographical entities' localization. They correspond to the topology description levels described in modern exchange formats. A principle of independence between data structures and operations is defined. This principle allows avoiding the re-questioning of the definition of a process if the data structure must be modified.
Lastly the described system has been effectively developed and is used with sets of a large volume of real data produced by the French Institut Géographique National (IGN).
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David, B., Raynal, L., Schorter, G., Mansart, V. (1993). GeO2: Why objects in a geographical DBMS?. In: Abel, D., Chin Ooi, B. (eds) Advances in Spatial Databases. SSD 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56869-7_15
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