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geo-atom: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Geographic information science

the elementary unit of geographic representation, a tuple linking a point in space-time to a property value, from which fields and objects can be built.

In geographic information science, geo-atom refers to the elementary unit of geographic representation, a tuple linking a point in space-time to a property value, from which fields and objects can be built. This meaning comes from Goodchild (2007) in International Journal of Geographical Information Science.[1]

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References

Goodchild, M. F., Yuan, M., & Cova, T. J. (2007). Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(3), 239-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810600965271

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