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DATA and DATABASE D ESIGN

Spatial Data also known as geospatial data or geographic information is the data or information that identifies the geographic location of features and boundaries on Earth. Spatial data is usually stored as coordinates and topology, and is data that can be mapped. In this project we will be dealing with spatial data and t hese data will be stored in a database. Although spatial data includes various domain specific data, but the data that we are concerned includes the exact geographical location of a person visiting the website in real-time. What we mean by the geographical location is, at first we will be finding out the latitude-longitude of the place from where the person has come online. Then based on this latitude-longitude, we will be determining the country, state, city and street and more granularity if possible. These values will be stored in the database at every instance when a person visits the website. The data stored in the database will be used when a person wants to find out clusters about visitors depending on their geographical location, the frequency of coming online of people that is the time of the day, when the website receives maximum hits. As time goes, this frequency can be increased to weeks, months and even years, and the radius of the network which will determine the range of places from where the w ebsite has been visited. This will be determined by querying the database. We will be using MySql as the server and SQL (Structured Query Language) as the query language, for fetching the data from the database. Most of the data determined from the databa se will not be straight from the database, it will be a computing value from several values in the database that meet a certain requirement. The table that we will be using is given in the following format: