On Indexing Mechanism in Geographical Information Retrieval System

INTRODUCTION With the development of Concerning the Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) Systems (Larson, 1995), a lot of available indexes for GIR have been invented towards such problem. Zhou (Zhou, 2005) proposed a hybrid approach of inverted file and R-tree family. Vaid (Vaid, 2005) presented the geographic and full-text indexes in the famous GIR system – SPIRIT. Martins (Martins, 2005) studied nearly all the important indexing and ranking approaches in Information Retrieval (IR) systems and suggested a practical guide on how to build efficient a GIR system based on these approaches.