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Database design: road topology in GIS

Is there a standard or a best practice way to store certain features about roads: Road directionality: One way streets: Roads going in one direction only Center Turning lanes: roads that exist ...
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Sharding of geospatial data

Reading through Rosenberg & Mateos' The Cloud at Your Service I stumbled upon the concept of database sharding. Authors point out to several advantages of such approach including high (online) ...
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How to design a Spatial Database for temporal Data?

I am working on a Weather based GIS App. I have the data from several weather stations, and this data will updated daily (by a web service). The obstacles I am facing are: There are currently 40 ...