Legal and ethical issues of using geospatial technologies in society

The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 504-528

  Sui, Daniel Z ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446201046.n26     Document Type: Chapter

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