Gabriel Joseph Ramos Rafael, Carlos V. A. M. Pontes, Maxwell Guimarães De Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo Santos Pires, Claudio E. C. Campelo
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Abstract
To alleviate challenges related to mobility, travel planning, and time management, individuals commonly encounter the necessity of locating points of interest (POIs) that either share the same physical building or are situated within interconnected buildings. However, existing search engines face difficulties in retrieving groups of places based on keywords and topological relations among their respective regions, for instance, when a user wants to find a residential building that is connected to a green area. This is primarily due to their limited consideration of POIs as mere points in space, rather than recognizing the polygonal geometries of their boundaries. In this work, we present a spatial search solution based on textual and topological query parameters for efficiently retrieving groups of POIs whose neighborhoods and boundaries satisfy specific restrictions. To perform this type of search efficiently, we propose the Topo‐MSJ algorithm, building upon the well‐established “Multi‐Star‐Join” (MSJ) algorithm, by including an efficient approach to handle queries with topological requirements. To assess the effectiveness of our solution, we conduct a performance evaluation by comparing the execution time of Topo‐MSJ with equivalent spatial SQL queries. The experimental analysis, performed on real datasets, reveals that Topo‐MSJ exhibits a faster execution time compared with equivalent SQL queries, additionally providing a simplified spatial pattern query notation.
期刊介绍:
Transactions in GIS is an international journal which provides a forum for high quality, original research articles, review articles, short notes and book reviews that focus on: - practical and theoretical issues influencing the development of GIS - the collection, analysis, modelling, interpretation and display of spatial data within GIS - the connections between GIS and related technologies - new GIS applications which help to solve problems affecting the natural or built environments, or business