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Appendix F What Is GIScience?
Pages 287-288

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... . It may discover faster algorithms, more efficient indexing schemes, or new ways of visualizing geographic information.
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... . GIScience is a legitimate subfield of information science, and it is particularly attractive to information scientists because of the well-defined nature of geographic information and the comparatively advanced state of knowledge about this information type.
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  • geographical information
  • international journal
  • university consortium
  • giscience research
  • spatial information

  • visualizing geographic
  • spatial indexing
  • spatial analysis
  • readily understood
  • spatial relationships

  • discover faster
  • advanced state
  • data acquisition
  • asks questions
  • information analysis

  • agenda asks
  • private companies
  • information sciences
  • computational geometry
  • intrigue computer

  • information infrastructure
  • spatial data
  • improved theory
  • computer scientists
  • information type

  • spatial databases
  • indexing schemes
  • comparatively advanced
  • prominent manifestations
  • human brain


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