User needs and implications for modelling vague named places

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 174-194

  Davies, Clare ^a   Holt, Ian ^a   Green, Jenny ^a   Harding, Jenny ^a   Diamond, Lucy ^a  

^a ORDNANCE SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data models; Place; Placenames; User requirements; Vagueness; Vernacular geography

Indexed keywords

PLACE; PLACENAMES; USER REQUIREMENTS; VAGUENESS; VERNACULAR GEOGRAPHY;

DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL STORAGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856463574     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860903121830     Document Type: Article

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