GDW
English edit
Noun edit
GDW (plural GDWs)
- Geographical data warehouse
- 2008, Stanisław Kozielski, Robert Wrembel, New Trends in Data Warehousing and Data Analysis, →ISBN, page 94:
- Nevertheless, it is known that conventional and geographical data must be integrated in one sole database, which corresponds to a GDW (Geographical Data Warehouse).
- 2009, Harvey J. Miller, Jiawei Han, Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, →ISBN, page 14:
- GDWs are potentially much larger than comparable nongeographic DWs.
- 2012, Thiago Luís Lopes Siqueira, Cristina Dutra de Aguiar Ciferri, Vale/ria Cesa/rio Times, Ricardo Rodrigues Ciferri, “Towards Vague Geographic Data Warehouses”, in Geographic Information Science, →ISBN:
- A GDW implemented in a relational database inherits several component of conventional data warehouses, such as fact and dimenstion tables, numeric measures and hierarchies of attributes that aggretgate these measures according to distinct granularity levels.