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COSIT
1999
Springer
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Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments
Route directions are instructions, primarily verbal, that explain how to get from one place to another. The current study examines several methods for assessing the quality of verb...
Kristin L. Lovelace, Mary Hegarty, Daniel R. Monte...
COSIT
1999
Springer
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Agglomerations
Where some have attempted to apply cognitive methods to the study of geography, the present paper is designed to serve as a starting point for applying methods of geographic ontolo...
Barry Smith
COSIT
1999
Springer
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The Nature of Landmarks for Real and Electronic Spaces
Landmarks are significant in one’s formation of a cognitive map of both physical environments and electronic information spaces. Landmarks are defined in physical space as having...
Molly E. Sorrows, Stephen C. Hirtle
GIS
1999
ACM
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Improved Bulk-Loading Algorithms for Quadtrees
Spatial indexes, such as the PMR quadtree, are important in spatial databases for efficient execution of queries involving spatial constraints, especially when the queries involv...
Gísli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet
INTEROP
1999
Springer
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Architecture Considerations for Advanced Earth Observation Application Systems
Application systems in the earth observation area can be characterised as distributed, platform-inhomogeneous, complex, and cost intensive information systems. In order to manage t...
Hermann Ludwig Möller, Marcello Mariucci, Ber...