Patent ID: 6772174
Filing Date: 2004-08-03
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for administering information at least some of which are related to a spatial entity, comprisingproviding, in a computer system, a data system residing on data storage means of the computer system and representing the spatial entity, at least some of the data of the data system being co-ordinate data representing respective sets of spatial co-ordinates of a co-ordinate to system spanning the spatial entity, at least some of the data of the data system being spatial entity basic descriptor data which are associated with co-ordinate data and describing basic properties of the spatial entity at the respective co-ordinates, or the co-ordinate data being predefined as co-ordinate data pertaining to a particular known spatial entity, at least some of the data of the data system being layer data which are associated with co-ordinate data and describing phenomena related to the spatial entity at the respective co-ordinates, the layer data being organised in at least two layers, each layer containing one or several layer data the layers comprise at least two types of layers, one type being input layers comprising input data, and another type being derived layers comprising at least some data whit are the result of interaction between data of at least two layers of the data system or which are the result of the processing of data of a layer and other data of the data system, the generation of a derived layer resulting from interaction between data of at least two layers comprises, for each particular position of the spatial entity to which layer data of a least one of the layers relate, the steps ofgenerating a layer data of the derived layer from said layer data relating to the particular position of the spatial entity, and entering the generated layer data into the data system as pertaining to the derived layer and being related to the particular position of the spatial entity, the method further comprising the step of outputting, to an output device, layer data of a derived layer and representing the layer data at the output device in such a manner that one or more phenomena described by the layer data can be perceived as related to the particular position of the spatial entity which is defined by the co-ordinate data with which the particular layer data is/are associated,the data system comprising property data permitting the definition of how the data of a particular layer, or certain data of a particular layer, is/are to be represented at the output device in relation to the basic descriptor data and/or in elation to data of one or more other layers, and the output representing the spatial entity in accordance with these data.