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Geographic information systems (GIS) deal with collecting, modeling, managing, analyzing, and integrating spatial (locational) and non-spatial (attribute) data required for geographic applications. Examples of spatial data are digital maps, administrative boundaries, and road networks, and those of non-spatial data are census counts, land elevations and soil characteristics.
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Adam, N.R., Gangopadhyay, A. (1997). Introduction. In: Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems. Advances in Database Systems, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6109-5_1
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