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Topological Relationships

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Topological relationships describe qualitative properties that characterize the relative position of spatial objects. disjoint, meet, overlap, and inside are few examples (Fig. 1).

Topological Relationships. Figure 1
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Examples of binary topological relationships between objects A and B (the biggest): (a) <A, disjoint, B>, (b) <A, meet, B>, (c) <A, overlap, B>, and (d) <A, inside, B>.

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  1. University of L'Aguila, L'Aguila, Italy

    Paolino Di Felice & Eliseo Clementini

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Felice, P., Clementini, E. (2009). Topological Relationships. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_432

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