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scale in GIS  

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  • Scale has many connotations in geographic information systems (GIS) research and education. Among its most frequent uses, scale captures the relationship between distances in the real world and the distances among objects on GIS maps and in spatial databases. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Scale in GIS]

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