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Ontology-Driven Description of Spatial Data for Their Semantic Processing

2005; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/11586180_18

1611-3349

Miguel Torres-Ruiz, Rolando Quintero, Marco Moreno-Ibarra, Frederico Fonseca,

Geographic Information Systems Studies

We use ontologies in this paper to search for alternative representations of geographic objects thus providing a description of these objects in cartographic vector maps. We define ontologies based on two types of concepts (“terminal” and “non-terminal”) and two kinds of relations (“has” and “is-a”). These are the basic elements used to describe a map. We also present a case study in which an ontology for topographic maps is created. Our approach is oriented towards solving heterogeneity and interoperability issues in GIS.