Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology

Geosciences, mapping day

Jean-Paul KASPRZYK, phd student

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Introduction: GIS and SOLAP

GIS : OnLine Transactional Processing (OLTP)
Daily management of spatial data
Easy update, integrity and no redundancy of the data

Based on transactional databases

Entity association approach Easy access to data

SOLAP : Spatial OnLine Analytical Processing (Bdard, 1997)

Decision support (Business intelligence)
Archiving temporal dimension

Based on data warehouses

Multidimensional approach Easy exploration of the data at different aggregation levels Integration of large amount of heterogeneous data

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Multidimensional approach
Time: day Time: month Time: year Fact: offence Province Commune Offence Place

Offender address Serial Commune Snowflake schema of the criminal data Province
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SOLAP Architecture
ETL Source data Data warehouse

OLAP

Data cube (SOLAP server)

SOLAP

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Data integration : ETL (extract transform load)

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OLAP interface : drill down Operation

drill down

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OLAP interface : drill through operation

drill through

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OLAP interface: slice operation

Slice (time) Slice (serie)

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OLAP interface: graphic exports

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SOLAP Interface: spatial drill down (1)

MDX request
SELECT {[Measures].[offence]} ON COLUMNS, {[offence place].[province].members} ON ROWS FROM [offence]

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SOLAP interface: spatial drill down (2)

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SOLAP Interface :

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Conclusion
Advantages of SOLAP
Integration and exploration of large amounts of heterogeneous data Simple interface Quick requests Ideal for decision support

Spatial OLAP = new technologies

spatial operations can still be improved
Example: buffer operation through the data cube

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Thank you for listening

Any question?
Jp.kasprzyk@ulg.ac.be

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