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International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems

INTEROP 1999: Interoperating Geographic Information Systems pp 163–176Cite as

Towards OpenGIS Systems

The Vector Data Storage Component Evaluated

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The Open GIS Consortium has defined and classified two dimensional geometries for the SQL92 Data Model Architecture in order to improve interoperability of spatial information systems. This specification was used as a reference to evaluate the implemented data models of two commercial GIS packages. It is concluded that the data models of both commercial packages are not OpenGIS compliant. They generally follow the rules as set by the Open GIS Consortium, but there are still deflections. These deflections are related to the concepts of the package developers and the way geometric entities are handled in their software. The fact that deflections exist should encourage a more in depth study of the OpenGIS Data Model Architecture in order to capture all occurrences of geometric phenomena. A first contribution was made by examining geometries in the Dutch Topographic Map scale 1 : 10.000.

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  1. Geo Information division of the Dienst Landelijk Gebied for sustainable land and water management, P.O. box 20021, 3502 LA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frits C. Cattenstart

  2. Department of Regional Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Henk J. Scholten

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  1. Netcetera AG, Zypressenstr. 71, CH-8040, Zürich, Switzerland

    Andrej Včkovski

  2. Spatial Data Handling, Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Kurt E. Brassel

  3. Professor Emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

    Hans-Jörg Schek

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Cattenstart, F.C., Scholten, H.J. (1999). Towards OpenGIS Systems. In: Včkovski, A., Brassel, K.E., Schek, HJ. (eds) Interoperating Geographic Information Systems. INTEROP 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10703121_14

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