Vyhledávání založené na lokální dostupnosti produktů v produktových katalozích

Abstract

Thesis deals with searching in large data collections using the geographical location of entities. The topics of geographic coordinate systems together with the representation of geographical locations are presented in the theoretical part of the thesis. Czech registry of addresses is described as a data source suitable for proposed solution. The overall spatial data concept and its means of representation in database systems, relational and others, is presented. Some of the existing map and routing applications are also mentioned.

The second part of the text describes a demonstrative application which implements the principles of the proposed solution. The topic is presented on the case of product search in e-commerce system where the location attributes are available for the query parameterization together with other product attributes. The purpose of this practical solution is to verify the findings from the theoretical part of the thesis: the chosen database schema, the way how the query is built by using the entities' location information and integration of map and routing application interfaces.