Handling Geographic Information: Report to the Secretary of State for the Environment of the Committee of Enquiry Into the Handling of Geographic Information, Volume 1 |
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Geographic information and the computer | 7 |
The use of geographic information today | 15 |
Factors influencing development | 47 |
Copyright | |
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agencies aggregated analysis authorities basic scales benefits boundaries cartographic Census central government Centre collection Committee computerised confidentiality coordinate cost data sets database digital data digital form digital mapping digitising districts duplication Environment environmental example existing funding geographic data geographic information handling Geographic Information Systems geographic information technology GISP Government Departments grid-squares handling of geographic HM Land Registry identified important industry Information Technology Institute Intergraph INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS LTD Land Registry linking locational referencing major National Grid NJUG Northern Ireland Ordnance Survey organisations particular planning postcode potential private sector problems processing programme raster recommend records relevant remote sensing remotely sensed data research and development Research Council scale maps Scotland spatial data spatial units spatially referenced specific standards statistics techniques topographic unit post codes updating users utilities