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Geospatial semantic querying to geographical databases has been recognized as an hot topic in GIS research. Most approaches propose to adopt an ontology as a knowledge representation structure on top of the database, representing the concepts the user can query. These concepts are typically directly mapped to database tables. In this paper we propose a methodology where the ontology is further exploited mapping axioms to spatial SQL queries. The main advantage of this approach is that semantic-rich geospatial queries can be abstractly represented in the ontology and automatically translated into spatial SQL queries.
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Baglioni, M., Masserotti, M.V., Renso, C., Spinsanti, L. (2011). Improving Geodatabase Semantic Querying Exploiting Ontologies. In: Claramunt, C., Levashkin, S., Bertolotto, M. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20630-6_2
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