Towards a Spatial Query Language: User Interface Considerations
Summary: Advocates a spatial query language and an interface blending maps with lexical queries, addressing SQL-like limitations for spatial data. Emphasizes direct manipulation, object-level references on maps, and tunable visuals as central to spatial querying. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine)
- 2. Andrew U. Frank (University of Maine)
BibTeX Citation
@article{egenhofer_vldb88,
title = {{Towards a Spatial Query Language: User Interface Considerations}},
author = {Egenhofer, Max J. and Frank, Andrew U.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '88},
pages = {124},
year = {1988}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,094 | Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power | 1989 | VLDB | 5.888938e-05 |
| 6,145 | V-Trees - A Storage Method for Long Vector Data | 1994 | VLDB | 5.8717297e-05 |
| 13,347 | What's Special about Spatial? Database Requirements for Vehicle Navigation in Geographic Space (Extended Abstract) | 1993 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching | 1984 | SIGMOD | 0.001992968 |
| 101 | Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00033937215 |
| 5,104 | Efficient Spatial Access To A Data Base | 1982 | SIGMOD | 6.271356e-05 |
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