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Elwood, S. (2006). The Devil is still in the Data: Persistent Spatial Data Handling Challenges in Grassroots GIS. In: Riedl, A., Kainz, W., Elmes, G.A. (eds) Progress in Spatial Data Handling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35589-8_1

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