A pictorial query language for querying geographic databases using positional and OLAP operators

  • Authors:
  • Elaheh Pourabbas;Maurizio Rafanelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica-CNR, Viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Roma, Italy;Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica-CNR, Viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The authors propose a declarative Pictorial Query Language (called PQL) that is able to express queries on an Object-Oriented geographic database drawing the features which form the query. These features refer to the classic ones of a geographic environment (geo-null, geo-points, geo-polyline, and geo-region) and define the alphabet of the above mentioned language. This language, extended with respect to a previous one, considers twelve positional operators and a set of their specifications. Moreover, the possibility to use the mentioned language to query multidimensional databases is discussed. Finally, the characteristic of the mentioned language by a query example is shown.