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Providence Pleases Geographers, Chester Smolski
Providence Pleases Geographers, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"New England and eastern Canadian geographers recently held their 61st annual meeting at a hotel in downtown Providence. The 175 college and university faculty members, including some college students, were joined by 40 public school teachers for the two-day conference on urban revitalization."
Modeling Location For Cadastral Maps Using An Object-Oriented Computer Language, Daniel Kjerne
Modeling Location For Cadastral Maps Using An Object-Oriented Computer Language, Daniel Kjerne
Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports
The challenge to designers of multipurpose computer-aided land information systems is to capture enough of the "deep structure" of the problem domain to enable a system to answer user questions and requests in a satisfactory way. Criteria defining "satisfactory" in each case must include considerations of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and cost. These considerations, when applied to the location in space of parcel boundaries and property corners, present unusual difficulties. This is in large measure due to the fact that important elements of the field measurement process, and the determination of location based on what are essentially logical {legal) abstractions, are …