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User interfaces are a fundamental component of applications using as a support. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geographic DataBase Management Systems (DBMS). We propose in this paper a model and an architecture for designing Geographic Database User Interfaces (GDUI). A GDUI kernel based on this architecture has been implemented using, at the interface programming level, X Windows, Motif and C++, and, at the database level, the GeO2 data model [DRS93b] implemented itself on top of the O2 DBMS. From the starting model, we make a first proposal for multiple scale map display.
Work partially supported by the French CNRS GDR Cassini, and the ESPRIT BRA AMUSING.
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Rigaux, P., Scholl, M., Voisard, A. (1993). A map editing kernel implementation: application to multiple scale display. In: Frank, A.U., Campari, I. (eds) Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS. COSIT 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57207-4_23
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