What's Special about Spatial? Database Requirements for Vehicle Navigation in Geographic Space (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Spatial DB needs for vehicle navigation in geographic space: continuous, real-time access to very large geographic datasets. Analyzes data models, query languages, and processing techniques to meet real-time, GIS-like needs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2723
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,057 | 10.42%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170096

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Authors

1. Max J. Egenhofer (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis; University of Maine)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{egenhofer_sigmod93,
        title = {{What's Special about Spatial? Database Requirements for Vehicle Navigation in Geographic Space (Extended Abstract)}},
        author = {Egenhofer, Max J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170096},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170096},
        year = {1993}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
116	Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees	1985	SIGMOD	0.0003221055
1,125	Optimization Strategies for Spatial Query Processing	1991	VLDB	0.0001208101
2,628	Gral: An Extensible Relational Database System for Geometric Applications	1989	VLDB	8.326647e-05
3,980	Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMSs	1983	SIGMOD	6.9752983e-05
6,849	Towards a Spatial Query Language: User Interface Considerations	1988	VLDB	5.7547607e-05

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