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A spatial database management system (SDBMS) provides storage structures and basic operations for spatial data manipulation, whereas geographic information systems (GIS) provide the mechanisms for analysis and visualization of geographic data (Shekhar and Chawla, 2003). In this way, geographic databases (GeoDB) are collections of georeferenced spatial data, stored by SDBMS and manipulated by GIS.
GeoDB, as any database, must be designed following the traditional database design methodology that includes the conceptual, logical and physical design phases (Elmasri and Navathe, 2000). To draw up a data schema during the conceptual phase, a conceptual modeling language must be used. A strong tendency exists in computer science to adopt the Unified Modeling Language (UML) (OMG, 2007) as a system modeling standard based on the object-oriented paradigm, and more specifically the...
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Filho, J., Iochpe, C. (2016). Modeling with a UML Profile. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_809-2
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