GDW

English

Noun

GDW (plural GDWs)

1. Geographical data warehouse
   • 2008, Stanisław Kozielski, Robert Wrembel, New Trends in Data Warehousing and Data Analysis, →ISBN, page 94:

     Nevertheless, it is known that conventional and geographical data must be integrated in one sole database, which corresponds to a GDW (Geographical Data Warehouse).

   • 2009, Harvey J. Miller, Jiawei Han, Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, →ISBN, page 14:

     GDWs are potentially much larger than comparable nongeographic DWs.

   • 2012, Thiago Luís Lopes Siqueira, Cristina Dutra de Aguiar Ciferri, Vale/ria Cesa/rio Times, Ricardo Rodrigues Ciferri, “Towards Vague Geographic Data Warehouses”, in Geographic Information Science, →ISBN:

     A GDW implemented in a relational database inherits several component of conventional data warehouses, such as fact and dimenstion tables, numeric measures and hierarchies of attributes that aggretgate these measures according to distinct granularity levels.

Anagrams

• WGD, dwg