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Articles | Volume XLII-2/W7
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-1257-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-1257-2017
14 Sep 2017
 | 14 Sep 2017

EXPRESSION AND ORGANIZATION OF GEOGRAPHIC SPATIAL RELATIONS BASED ON TOPIC MAPS

H. J. Liang, H. Wang, T. J. Cui, and J. F. Guo

Keywords: Topic Maps, Spatial Relation, Topological Relation, Association, Topic Types, Occurrence

Abstract. Spatial Relation is one of the important components of Geographical Information Science and Spatial Database. There have been lots of researches on Spatial Relation and many different spatial relations have been proposed. The relationships among these spatial relations such as hierarchy and so on are complex and this brings some difficulties to the applications and teaching of these spatial relations. This paper summaries some common spatial relations, extracts the topic types, association types, resource types of these spatial relations using the technology of Topic Maps, and builds many different relationships among these spatial relations. Finally, this paper utilizes Java and Ontopia to build a topic map among these common spatial relations, forms a complex knowledge network of spatial relations, and realizes the effective management and retrieval of spatial relations.