Ontology-Driven description of spatial data for their semantic processing

Authors:
Miguel Torres;Rolando Quintero;Marco Moreno;Frederico Fonseca
Affiliations:
Geoprocessing Laboratory, Centre for Computing Research, IPN, Mexico City, Mexico;Geoprocessing Laboratory, Centre for Computing Research, IPN, Mexico City, Mexico;Geoprocessing Laboratory, Centre for Computing Research, IPN, Mexico City, Mexico;School of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
Venue:
GeoS'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on GeoSpatial Semantics
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We use ontologies in this paper to search for alternative representations of geographic objects thus providing a description of these objects in cartographic vector maps. We define ontologies based on two types of concepts (“terminal” and “non-terminal”) and two kinds of relations (“has” and “is-a”). These are the basic elements used to describe a map. We also present a case study in which an ontology for topographic maps is created. Our approach is oriented towards solving heterogeneity and interoperability issues in GIS.