Geographic Database Systems: Issues and Research Needs
Summary: Surveys GIS DB challenges: multiple conceptual perspectives, cognitive foundations, formal spatial models, and spatial reasoning. Calls for DB research on representation, evolving schemas, and scalable storage/indexing of complex spatial objects, relations, and processes. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Max J. Egenhofer (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis; University of Maine)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{egenhofer_pods96,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '96},
title = {{Geographic Database Systems: Issues and Research Needs}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/237661.242785},
doi = {10.1145/237661.242785},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Egenhofer, Max J.},
year = {1996}
}
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