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Digital Places Living with Geographic Information Technologies

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ISBN-10: 0415130158

ISBN-13: 9780415130158

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael Curry

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Widely used in marketing, business planning, government and legislation, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a rapidly growing industry and their impacts are substantial.Digital Placesoffers a new understanding of GIS--the social impacts of the development and the ethical issues surrounding their use. The last twenty-five years have seen major changes in the nature and scope of geographical information. Computers, satellites and global positioning systems have made GIS more extensive in society at large, while these systems have resolved issues as diverse as global climate change to the routing of mail in universities. Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Michael R. Curry argues…    
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Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Adam Cheifetz is Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Alphonso Brown is Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the PancreasCenter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Michael Curry is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director for Liver Transplantation at the Liver Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Boston, Massachusetts. Alan Moss isInstructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Translational Research at the Center for…    

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Reason and language in geographic information systems
On space in geographic information systems
Optical consistency, technologies of location, and the limits of representation
On the roots of geographic information systems
The reshaping of geographic practice
Who owns geographic information?
The digital individual in a visible world
Geographic information systems and the problem of ethical action
Beyond PaleoGIS?
Notes
Bibliography
Index