Technical Report 93-17

TITLE:

A Map Editing Kernel Implementation: Application to Multiple Scale Display

DATE:

November 1993

AUTHORS:

Agnes Voisard (voisard@inf.fu-berlin.de)

PH. Rigaux

M. Scholl

Institut für Informatik

Freie Universitaet Berlin

Takustr. 9

D-14195 Berlin (Germany)

KEYWORDS:

geographic information systems, user interfacess

ABSTRACT:

User interfaces are a fundamental component of applications using as support Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geographic DataBase Management Systems (DBMS). We propose in this paper a model and an architecture for designing Geographic Database User Interfaces (GDUI). A GDUI kernel based on this architecture has been implemented using, at the interface programming level, X Windows, Motif and C++, and, at the database level, the GeO2 data model implemented itself on top of the O2 DBMS. From the starting model, we make a first proposal for multiple scale map display.