ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an example application to demonstrate the most important aspects of the spatio-temporal data model (STDM) implementation. The role of geographic visualisation is to provide the means for a better understanding of the STDM and the information stored in the database. Historical views have been designed in the spatio-temporal data model in order to visualise the incremental mechanism of space-time paths. The user can create as many historical views as they need for their application. And they can specify the classes that should belong to each historical view. The overlapping incremental mechanism of space-time paths has been illustrated by creating a historical view termed update historical view. The chapter shows that how space-time paths can be created within a geographic information system. In Smallworld the definition of object properties and their relationships for a particular application are loaded into the version-managed data store using the Case tool.
