| Summary: | The use of geographic information systems (GIS) is a rapidly growing and important field of information science. This survey of the field presents examples of GIS in practice to demonstrate how the new manipulation of spatial and areal data at a variety of scales, resolutions, and levels can produce solutions to practical planning and management problems in the human and natural environment, as well as enabling the developing of new research directions. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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