Spatial data traversal in road map databases: a graph indexing approach

  • Authors:
  • J. Leon Zhao;Ahmed Zaki

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Business Administration, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA;Graduate School of Business Administration, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Spatial data are found in geographic information systems such as digital road map databases where city and road attributes are associated with nodes and links in a directed graph. Queries on spatial data are expensive because of the recursive property of graph traversal. We propose a graph indexing technique to expedite spatial queries where the graph topology remains relatively stationary. Using a probabilistic analysis, this paper shows that the graph indexing technique significantly improves the efficiency of constrained spatial queries.