Hill L. Georeferencing. The Geographic Associations of Information 2006

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Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information is an introductorylevel book for individual study or to support formal education in fields such as library science, information science, museum informatics, and geographic information science. Given that a high portion of all types of information can be related to place and that users are best served by information systems that can access the total scope of these information resources, the book focuses on the common ground between placename-based referencing and geospatial referencing. It spans the fields of geographic information science, library science, and information storage and retrieval. For most people, this will be a new perspective and one that challenges the ways we have dealt with georeferencing up to this time. The focus is on the notion of unified georeferencing, where placenaming and geospatial coding are interchangeable to the degree that place-based information retrieval can be expected to work satisfactorily across the vast and dissimilar collections of data, images, library and museum holdings, news, online resources, and so on