The Validity and Usefulness of Laws in Geographic Information Science and Geography
Annals of the Association of American GeographersPublished 1 June 2004
Michael F. Goodchild
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My contribution to the session at the New Orleans meetings of the Association of American Geographers at which the ideas that appear in this forum were initially aired was as discussant, following ...
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