Publication Date:
2011-08-18
Description:
We largely agree that the “scientific foundation to determine spatial relationships is computational geometry” (1). GIScience adds this strength to understanding space. We concur that current spatial ontologies tend to explicate the spatiality of features; spatial relations are frequently undervalued. However, computational geometry is not the sole source of spatial relations.We do not ignore geometric relationships, but we mapped them onto how features interact in our paper (2). Our ontology had states containing prefectures—these prefectures encompassed political entities as well as spatial relationships between their coordinates. This ontology showed the assertion of Smith (3) that, for geospatial features, topology (connection...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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