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Bytecode Unification Of Geospatial Computable Models, Jan Kolar

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

Geospatial modelling revolves around the structures of data and the semantics of these structures. This is enough in simple cases, but becomes insufficient when the best structure and semantics is hard to find or the solution is too heterogeneous to fix and reuse. Field-based and objects-based geospatial models often share common GIS data structures interchangeably, but their all possible meanings are too many to define in an immutable manner. Less studied approach to geospatial modelling is using mutable structural properties and their semantic interpretation. This work shows that the functional aspect of geospatial models is just as important as the …