Cognition of geographic information

A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 61-91

  Montello, Daniel R ^a   Freundschuh, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

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