School students' mental representations of thematic point symbol maps

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-136

  Wiegand, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; DESIGN; EDUCATION; MAP GENERALIZATION; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 0036944318     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/caj.2002.39.2.125     Document Type: Article

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