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  1. Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Christopher B. Jones

  2. University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Ross S. Purves

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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    Ralf Hartmut Güting

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Jones, C.B., Purves, R.S. (2018). Geographical Information Retrieval. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_177

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