Invariant spatial information in sketch maps - a study of survey sketch maps of urban areas

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2015, 2015, Pages 31-52

  Wang, Jia ^a,b   Schwering, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive impact; Invariant spatial information; Sketch aspect; Sketch map

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995564000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1948660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5311/JOSIS.2015.11.225     Document Type: Article

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