Evaluating the Geographic in GIS.
Despite several decades of discussion and debate around the role of GIS in the discipline of Geography, it would be a stretch to argue that GIS has not irreversibly altered the discipline, both in the scope of research and teaching as well as in the wider imagination of a general public. However, it...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Review Vol. 109; no. 3; pp. 297 - 308 |
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