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Nature of Geographic Information Systems

An Open Geospatial Textbook
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The purpose of this text is to promote understanding of the Geographic Information Science and Technology enterprise (GIS&T, also known as "geospatial").
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David DiBiase
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The Pennsylvania State University
Publish Date
2014
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Undergraduate
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Paul Pickell, University of British Columbia
I would recommend this text to my American colleagues, but I would not use it to teach GIS in my Canadian classroom. The examples are just not relevant to my classroom. That said, I think the text is brilliantly written around the American contex...„
Reviewed on 2/9/2021

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