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Topological Relationships Between Maps

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The study of topological relationships between objects in space has received much attention from a variety of research disciplines including robotics, geography, cartography, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer vision, image databases, spatial database systems, and geographical information systems (GIS).

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  2. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

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McKenney, M., Schneider, M. (2016). Topological Relationships Between Maps. In: Map Framework. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46766-5_7

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