... element of the space- time path 21
2. 10 .2 Event as an element of the space- time path 22
2. 10.3 Episode as an element of the space- time path 24
2. 10.4 Evidence as an element of the space- time path 24
PREFACE
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the ... of this book 7
2 Concepts of space and time 9
2. 1 The space- dominant view 9
2. 2 The time- dominant view 11
2. 3 The ab...
... behaviour of people’s movements:
CONCEPTS OF SPACE AND TIME
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Figure 2. 3 (a) New Zealand in absolute space (b) New Zealand in 1953 time space (c) New
Zealand in 1970 time space. (Reprinted by permission ... been adopted for the time
dimension.
CONCEPTS OF SPACE AND TIME
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2. 9 TIME GEOGRAPHY AND GIS
Although Time Geography is an effective approach t...
... relationship
OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
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Snodgrass and Ahn (1985, 1986) have also demonstrated the existence of a true
orthogonality between transaction time and valid time which allows each kind of
time ... 1983) and start/end
time (Reed, 1978). Correspondingly, valid time has been proposed for event time
(Copeland and Maier, 1984), effective time (...
... the space- time path, not the space- time path itself. The
historical view of the observer is reduced to the perception of nearness of states and
events on the space- time path of a lifespan of an ... viewpoint of the fused
space and time dimensions rather than the dimensions themselves and their
orthogonality. The space- time path is treated as the core of...
... understanding of the STDM and the information stored in the database.
6.7 CONCLUSIONS
This chapter has illustrated some examples of how space- time paths can be created by
a user. The states and ... The origin of a space- time path in the VMDS can never be modified. In this
example the origin of a space- time path is created once the properties of the Assumption
class h...
... simultaneously defined in space and time (2D space, time) . An
event in space and time can be defined as (point, point). Otherwise an event having
a certain period of time could be defined as (point, ... data model capture the synergy
between space and time of a space- time path in Time Geography. In terms of STDM,
spatio-temporal data types offer the advantag...