Geospatial data infrastructure portals: Using the national atlas as a metaphor

Cartographica

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-133

  Aditya, Trias ^a,b   Kraak, Menno Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Atlas; Browsing; GDI; Geoportal; Metadata mapping; Metaphor; Searching

Indexed keywords

ATLAS; DATA SET; MAPPING METHOD; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 33746713653     PISSN: 03177173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/P3P1-5327-X2QK-616M     Document Type: Article

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