All Datasets are Meshes: Towards a new Ontology for 3D GIS
10-01, 11:30–12:00 (Europe/London), Create 2

The paper contends that the current GIS ontology is not effective for N-dimensional data sets and proposes a mesh-based ontology that is complete and consistent.


The Thesis is that the Current Ontology
- Is inconsistent and incomplete
- Restricts our current use of GIS data and
- Complicates the extension of GIS to true N-Dimensional analysis

The contention is that a mesh based ontology solves these problems

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Paul has been working in various types of IT for too many years.

His interest in GIS cam through working in computational archaeology. He also developed a library for Virtual Reality GIS and is a contributor to GDAL, PDAL and MDAL.