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We present a first treatment dealing with the semantics of visual spatial query languages for geographic information systems using a suitable description logic. This decidable space logic is described and its usefulness for geographic information systems is exemplified. The logic supports the specification of a semantics, reasoning about query subsumption and about applying default knowledge.
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Haarslev, V., Möller, R., Wessel, M. (2002). Visual Spatial Query Languages: A Semantics Using Description Logic. In: Anderson, M., Meyer, B., Olivier, P. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0109-3_22
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