Deficiencies of sheets and tiles: building sheetless databases

Abstract

A geographic information system (GIS) provides access to information for potentially large areas. Traditionally, cartographers have divided maps into sheets for technical reasons. While such units survive in digital databases, they serve a different function. The 'tile' system has limitations and deficiencies which must be understood by software developers and users. Remedies to the problems of tiles provide a basis for specifying the requirements for sheetlessness. A truly sheetless database depends on indexing algorithms, reviewed in a companion paper.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 24 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.