Applying Temporal Databases to Geographical Data Analysis
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This paper reports an experience in which a temporal database was used to analyze the results of a survey on human behaviors and displacements in a ski resort. This survey was part of a broader study about the use of the resort’s infrastructure, based on the time-geography methodology. As such, the presented experience may be seen as an attempt to implement some concepts of the time-geography using temporal database technology. Throughout the paper, some shortcomings of current temporal data models regarding human displacements analysis are pointed out, and possible solutions are briefly sketched.
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