A Review on Spatial Access Methods

1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College Ghaziabad(U.P) INDIA 2 Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida(U.P) INDIA _________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Geographical information system and information retrieval has been very interesting research field since last two decades. Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) is new direction of these two fields. A better search method provides better result to the end user. In this paper, we present a survey of different aspects of spatial access methods on the basis of query type and region type for spatial search. At the end of this paper, we conclude the relative performance of different access methods with their pros and cons.