The open black box: The role of the end-user in GIS integration

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-74

  Poore, Barbara S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL DATA;

NORTH AMERICA; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 2042522715     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-0064.02e13     Document Type: Article

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