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Making of spatial reality 
Srikrishna Pothukuchi Navionics Technologies Pvt. Ltd. srikrishna@mysun.com Abstract Most of the present day business solutions enforce intelligent usage of data; spatial data is of no exception. As the situation demands for higher accuracy levels in the findings/results, the Applications Analyst has to do more rigorous analysis, i.e., more parameters to work with, more relations to make on, and more permutations & combinations to arrive at while formulating conclusion(s). ‘Making of Spatial Reality’ explores the possibility of a spatial system that works not only in the real-time, but also in a predefined spatial context that matches the needs of the analyst, reducing the burden of working on multiple parameters for analysis. Spatial Reality spawns beyond the Data Mining & OLAP technology. Besides formulating a rulebase, this paper defines ‘Spatial Events’ corresponding to a particular scenario of spatial design in the real-time. These spatial events can be classified further based on each scenario and there comes the Spatial Reality. This paper does not describe functioning of a real-time spatial system per se, rather it discusses the need of such system in the Analysis & Design for the Application Domains like Telecommunications, Highway Engineering or Business Geographics. We can see the proliferation of end-user systems deploying some of these fundamental concepts but there is need for deployment of such concepts in Analysis & Design as well. This paper also elaborates few principles behind making of the spatial reality true, within the framework of contemporary Software Engineering principles. This paper also advocates simplification of spatial/aspatial data design by introduction of the software tools corresponding to the ‘Spatial Events’. Introduction This paper is aimed at the needs of a typical GIS Analyst, who works on various datasets, both similar as well as dissimilar and performs hectic task of running various permutations and combinations, and finally arrives at finalising an end schema. The analyst puts also the expertise combined with intuition gathered over years of field exposure into his/her analysis. Even though it is true for all seasoned professionals to encounter such situations in their daily routines, the degree of working on multiple parameters should be reduced in some way in order to arrive at a more accurate result. It is the Spatial Reality that assists the analyst in several ways over solving a problem. Definition Spatial Reality, here onwards referred to as SR in short, is a conceptual framework that implies the capability of an Application System, for realising the locational factors of an entity or group of entities in space and time, and its capability for recognising and responding to the events generated either by the very existence of such entities in space or by the interaction among entities in space. Spatial Reality is based on spatial events, those comply the rules of the spatial algebra. We will be achieving the SR, if we are able to capture the events based on intelligent actions of entities and ready to use that knowledge in order to automate the analysis & design process. SR is not a pure decision support tool, rather it forms a framework upon which many DSS tools can be built, which are spatially enabled.
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