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Openshaw, S., Wymer, Colin and Charlton, Martin (1986) A Geographical Information and Mapping System for the BBC Domesday Optical Discs. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 11 (3). pp. 296-304. ISSN 0020-2754
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Abstract
The paper outlines the nature of the geographical information system that was developed for the BBC Domesday optical disc project. The successful exploitation of optical disc storage for geographical analysis and mappings dependent on the development of appropriate data structures that allow fastest possible data retrieval for geographical areas of interest. The authors describe how they achieved this objective such that a low powered BBC micro-computer is able to offer interactive colour mapping of over 20,000 variables for 33 different sets of geographical areas at ten different levels of resolution.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Domesday project; GIS; Optical discs; Data structures; Artificial intelligence; Optical raster-mapping system; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG |
| Item ID: | 6109 |
| Identification Number: | 10.2307/621790 |
| Depositing User: | Martin Charlton |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2015 14:52 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/6109 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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