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Is spatial information imprecise or just coarsely coded?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

P. Bryan Heidorn  and
Stephen C. Hirtle
P. Bryan Heidorn
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Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Electronic mail: pbh@lis.pitt.edu; sch@lis.pitt.edu
Stephen C. Hirtle
Affiliation:
Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Electronic mail: pbh@lis.pitt.edu; sch@lis.pitt.edu
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 246 - 247
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