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Reduced Data Model for Storing and Retrieving Geographic Data

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The ‘industry-strength’ data models are complex to use and tend to obscure the fundamental issues. Going back to the original proposal of Chen for Entities and Relationships, I describe here a reduced data model with Objects and Relations. It is mathematically well founded in the category of relations and has been implemented to demonstrate that it is viable. An example how this is used to structure data and load data is shown.

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  1. Dept. of Geoinformation and Cartography, Technical University Vienna, Vienna

    Andrew U. Frank

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  1. Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Riedl  & Wolfgang Kainz  & 

  2. Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 215 White Hall, Morgantown, WV, 26506-6300, USA

    Gregory A. Elmes

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Frank, A.U. (2006). Reduced Data Model for Storing and Retrieving Geographic Data. In: Riedl, A., Kainz, W., Elmes, G.A. (eds) Progress in Spatial Data Handling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35589-8_16

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