Vague cognitive regions in geography and geographic information science

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1802-1820

  Montello, Daniel R ^a   Friedman, Alinda ^b   Phillips, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

boundary vagueness; cognition; regions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY LINE; CARTOGRAPHY; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GIS; PRECISION;

ALBERTA; CALIFORNIA; CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907594261     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.900178     Document Type: Article

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