Finding similar places using the observation-to-generalization place model

Journal of Geographical Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 137-156

  Adams, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Gazetteer; Geographic information retrieval; Place; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939976919     PISSN: 14355930     EISSN: 14355949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10109-015-0209-3     Document Type: Article

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