A unique characteristic of GIS as compared to other information systems, is their capacity to manage spatial relationships, such as connections or interrelations among objects in the geometric domain. A number of frameworks use topology as a basic mechanism to define spatial relationships. The OpenGIS consortium has adopted one of them, i.e. the 9-intersection model. In this paper, a new framework for representing spatial relationships - the Dimensional model - is introduced. The model was first developed for convex spatial objects and is now extended to topological n-manifolds. It is based on two major concepts, i.e. the dimensional elements of spatial objects and the dimensional relationships, i.e. the relationships existing between dimensional elements. The model addresses a substantial group of spatial relationships and provides a flexible framework to consider either generalised or specialised types of associations..
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Billen, R., Zlatanova, S., Mathonet, P., & Boniver, F. (2002). The Dimensional Model: A Framework to Distinguish Spatial Relationships. In Advances in Spatial Data Handling (pp. 285–298). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56094-1_21
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