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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, Fig. 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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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

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    M. Tamer Özsu

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    Ralf Hartmut Güting

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Di Felice, P., Clementini, E. (2018). Topological Relationships. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_432

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