Zip codes and spatial analysis: Problems and prospects

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-149

  Grubesic, Tony H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Spatial analysis; Zip code

Indexed keywords

GIS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 40649123280     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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