Presenting geographic information: Effects of data aggregation, dispersion, and users' spatial orientation

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 169-195

  Swink, Morgan ^a   Speier, Cheri ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Geographic information systems; Problem complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040439522     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb01605.x     Document Type: Article

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