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An object-oriented approach to the design of geographic information systems

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Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases (SSD 1989)

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The applicability of the Object-Oriented (OO) approach to Geographic Information Systems (GISs) is analyzed. In software engineering, the OO approach as a design model, has been proven to produce quality software. It appears that GISs might also benefit from the OO approach. However, a GIS also imposes special (e.g. spatial) requirements, inclusion of which in the OO model has to be investigated. The proposed solution tries to meet these special requirements by incorporating two data structures: the R-tree and the Binary Line Generalization (BLG) tree. The latter is a novel data structure introduced in this document.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9512, 2500 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Peter van Oosterom & Jan van den Bos

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Alejandro P. Buchmann Oliver Günther Terence R. Smith Yuan-Fang Wang

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van Oosterom, P., van den Bos, J. (1990). An object-oriented approach to the design of geographic information systems. In: Buchmann, A.P., Günther, O., Smith, T.R., Wang, YF. (eds) Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases. SSD 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 409. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52208-5_31

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