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The last few years have seen a growing interest in approaches that define methodologies to automatically extract semantics from databases by using ontologies. Geographic data are very rarely collected in a well organized way, quite often they lack both metadata and conceptual schema. Extracting semantic information from data stored in a geodatabase is complex and an extension of the existing methodologies is needed. We describe an approach to extracting a geospatial ontology from geographical data stored in spatial databases. To provide geospatial semantics we introduce new relations which define geospatial ontology that can serve as a basis for an advanced user querying system. Some examples of use of the methodology in the urban domain are presented.
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Baglioni, M., Masserotti, M.V., Renso, C., Spinsanti, L. (2007). Building Geospatial Ontologies from Geographical Databases. In: Fonseca, F., Rodríguez, M.A., Levashkin, S. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4853. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76876-0_13
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