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Geographic information is information about phenomena occurring above, on, and below the earth’s surface. Geographic information is represented in maps. A map contains geographic objects, such as land parcels, rivers, and roads, that are related to the same geographic area. Any geographic object has the following components:

  • The component referred to as the spatial, geometric attribute, or spatial extent. This component describes the location, shape, orientation, and size of the object in two- or three-dimensional space.

  • The component that describes the object by means of nonspatial attributes. These attributes are also referred to as thematic or descriptive attributes.

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    Gabriel Kuper  & Leonid Libkin  & 

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp (UIA), Universiteitsplein 1, 2610, Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium

    Jan Paredaens

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Kuper, G., Scholl, M. (2000). Geographic Information Systems. In: Kuper, G., Libkin, L., Paredaens, J. (eds) Constraint Databases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04031-7_8

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