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analytical operations in GIS  

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  • Geographic information systems (GIS) have grown to be big and somewhat unwieldy software packages with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of functions. The majority of these are, however, devoted to facilitating data input/output and general data management. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Analytical Operations in GIS]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-SG116CB4-K

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