Theresearchworkhasbeenseldomdoneaboutcloverleafjunctionexpressionina3-dimensionalcitymodel(3DCM).Themainreasonisthatthecloverleafjunctionisofteninacomplexandenormousconstruction.Itsmainbodyisbestraddleinair,andhasaerialintersectionsbetweenitsparts.Thiscomplexfeaturemadecloverleafjunctionquitedifferentfrombuildingsandterrain,therefore,itisdifficulttoexpressthiskindofspatialobjectsinthesamewayasforbuildingsandterrain.Inthispaper,authorsanalyzespatialcharacteristicsofcloverleafjunction,proposeanall-constraintpointsTINalgorithmtopartitioncloverleafjunctionroadsurface,anddevelopamethodtovisualizecloverleafjunctionroadsurfaceusingTIN.Inordertomanagecloverleafjunctiondataefficiently,theauthorsalsoanalyzedthemechanismof3DCMdatamanagement,extendedBLOBtypeinrelationaldatabase,andcombinedR-treeindextomanage3Dspatialdata.Basedonthisextension,anappropriatedatastructur
