The changing face of geographic information on the web: A breakthrough in spatial data sharing

Electronic Library

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 365-371

  Pienaar, Martie ^a   Van Brakel, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SEARCHING; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA QUALITY; INTERACTIVE MAPPING; ONLINE DATA SEARCHING; SPATIAL DATA SHARING;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0007061374     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640479910329987     Document Type: Article

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