The Spatial Spreadsheet

  • Authors:
  • Glenn S. Iwerks;Hanan Samet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • VISUAL '99 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual Information and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The power of the spreadsheet can be combined with that of the spatial database to provide a system that is flexible, powerful and easy to use. In this paper we propose the Spatial Spreadsheet as a means to organize large amounts of spatial data, to quickly formulate queries on that data, and to propagate changes in the source data to query results on a large scale. Such a system can be used to organize related queries that not only convey the results of individual queries but also serve as a means of visual comparison of query results.