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Introduction to Integrated Geo-information Management

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One of the limitations of using GIS for effective decision making is the structure of geo-databases which have in the past been designed principally to generate cartographic products. Given that the basis for GIS is the need to understand the spatial context of features and events, the criteria for the storage and management of spatial information should be more than just the representation of that data in a cartographic form.

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Cassettari, S. (1993). Geo-information Databases. In: Cassettari, S. (eds) Introduction to Integrated Geo-information Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1504-9_3

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