ATLAS: A geographic database system data structure and language design for geographic information

Authors:
Tateyuki Tsurutani;Yutaka Kasahara;Masaru Naniwada
Affiliations:
Central Research Laboratories, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.;Central Research Laboratories, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.;Central Research Laboratories, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.
Venue:
SIGGRAPH '80 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Year:
1980

Citing 4
Cited 3

Geographic Data Processing

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A system for interactive acquisition and administration of geometric data for thematic map production

SIGGRAPH '76 Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The buffalo crime mapping system: a design strategy for the display and analysis of spatially referenced crime data

SIGGRAPH '77 Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Ways of structuring data within a digital cartographic data base

SIGGRAPH '77 Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Remotely-sensed geophysical databases: experience and implications for generalized DBMS

SIGMOD '83 Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
MAPQUERY: Data base query language for retrieval of geometric data and their graphical representation

SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
How map designers can represent their ideas in thematic maps

The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The design concepts and languages of a geographic information system ATLAS (Administration and Total Landuse Analysis Support system) are proposed. The database structure is designed based on the geographic information structure concepts which contain semantic structure, topological structure and location structure. For a flexible user interface, the system provides two languages) IGL (Interactive Geographic Language) and GDDL (Geographic Data Definition Language), whose functions are designed based on the geographic information structure concepts. IGL is an interactive end user language, which facilitates information retrieval under geographic and/or statistic conditions and thematic map production. GDDL is a language for a system manager who constructs and maintains the database.