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Author and Citation Info:
DiBiase, D., DeMers, M., Johnson, A., Kemp, K., Luck, A. T., Plewe, B., and Wentz, E. (2006). The spaghetti model. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers. (2nd Quarter 2016, first digital).
Learning Objectives:
Identify a widely-used example of the spaghetti model (e.g., AutoCAD DWF, ESRI shapefile)
Write a program to read and write a vector data file using a common published format
Explain the conditions under which the spaghetti model is useful
Explain how the spaghetti data model embodies an object-based view of the world
Describe how geometric primitives are implemented in the spaghetti model as independent objects without topology
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DiBiase, D., DeMers, M., Johnson, A., Kemp, K., Luck, A. T., Plewe, B., and Wentz, E. (2006). The spaghetti model. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers. (2nd Quarter 2016, first digital).