Public access to conversion of data between geographies, with multiple look up tables derived from a postal directory

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-307

  Simpson, Ludi ^a   Yu, An ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consistent geography units; Geography conversion tables; Postcodes; Public access

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GEOGRAPHY CONVERSION TABLES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATA MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037403057     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-9715(02)00018-2     Document Type: Article

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