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... > social science subjects > geography > geoinformatics > geographic information science > geospatial data > scale
... > social science subjects > geography > geoinformatics > geographic information science > conceptual foundations of GIS > scale
... > social science subjects > geography > geoinformatics > geographic information science > geographical visualization > scale

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scale  

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  • Scale is at the heart of all geographic investigations. Yet although it currently is a central concept across the many subfields of geography, 25 years ago few geographers other than cartographers paid much theoretical attention to it. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Scale]

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