Geographic categories: An ontological retrospective

Classics from IJGIS: Twenty years of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 507-512

  Smith, Barry ^a   Mark, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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