Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008, Volume 5178/2008, 689-694, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85565-1_85

Modeling Spatial Relations between Places to Support Geographic Information Retrieval

Alia I. Abdelmoty and Baher A. El-Geresy

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Abstract

Geo-ontologies have a key role to play in the development of the geospatial-semantic web, with regard to facilitating the search for geographical information and resources. They normally hold large amounts of geographic information and undergo a continuous process of revision and update. This paper proposes a novel qualitative representation scheme to structure geo-ontology A-Boxes. The scheme captures two types of spatial relationships between geo-objects, namely, adjacency and orientation. It facilitates qualitative manipulation of the data and the efficient derivation of implicit information using spatial reasoning techniques.

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