A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND COMPARISON OF SPATIAL DATA MODELS
Publication: Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization
Volume 21, Number 4
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This paper examines the major types of spatial data models currently known and places these models in a comprehensive framework. This framework is used to provide clarification of how varying data models, as well as their inherent advantages and disadvantages, are interrelated. It also provides an insight into how these conflicting demands may be balanced in a more systematic and predictable manner for practical applications, and reveals directions for needed future research.
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On examine les principaux types de modles de donnes spatiales actuels, et on les place dans un cadre global. Ce cadre est utilis pour claircir comment ces divers modles spatiaux, de mªme que leurs avantages et dsavantages, sont interrelis. Le cadre laisse aussi voir comment ces demandes contradictoires peuvent ªtre quilibres d'une fa§on plus systmatique et prvisible pour des applications pratiques, et rvle les directions que doit prendre la recherche future.
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Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization
Volume 21 • Number 4 • Winter 1984
Pages: 66 - 113
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Published in print: Winter 1984
Published online: 12 October 2006
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