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Frameworks and Patterns are important instruments that enable the reuse of successful software solutions in recurrent problems. Geographic information systems, on the other hand, are usually designed by people with only little knowledge of database modeling techniques. Therefore, we believe that analysis patterns and conceptual frameworks can both facilitate and improve geographic database design in many organizations.In order to be used by designers with such a wide variety of backgrounds (e.g., cartographers, biologists, and architects), analysis patterns and conceptual frameworks for geographic database design must rely upon an easy to learn and to use, semantically rich conceptual data model. This paper introduces the GeoFrame, a conceptual framework that serves as a starting point for the conceptual modeling of geographic databases. It relies on an extension of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) that can also be used to define new analysis patterns for geographic applications. In addition, we present an example of an analysis pattern that was extracted out of a database schema which was itself derived from GeoFrame. This pattern can be identified in various urban GIS applications.

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Abstract:The Brazil hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2014, a sporting event of great magnitude that attracts thousands of people from many countries around the world. The Brazilian government created several initiatives on physical and also virtual infrastructure to be able to cope with this mega event. This paper presents an e-Government initiative composed by an infrastructure to supply data and information to thousands of supporters and professionals involved with the World Cup. This initiative is described here from the perspective of a Thematic Spatial Data Infrastructure (TSDI) using context information based on an ontological model. This infrastructure provides relevant information about events location and interesting services for user. In this infrastructure, the user can also voluntarily provide spatial information about events and services linked to the World Cup.