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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are multidisciplinary systems that could be used by different community users, each one with their own objectives and interests. So, different visions of the same reality must be combined to support the community’s necessities.
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Viegas, R., Soares, V. (2007). Querying a Geographic Database using an Ontology-Based Methodology. In: Davis, C.A., Monteiro, A.M.V. (eds) Advances in Geoinformatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73414-7_10
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