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The high cost in acquiring data for populating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was, in the past, one of the main obstacles for its wide diffusion. The Internet created a huge network where users, institutions and organizations can easily share information. However, if on one hand, this interchange offers a lot of benefits, on the other hand it generates the need to address the heterogeneities among the information obtained from distinct sources.
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Hess, G.N., Iochpe, C., Castano, S. (2007). An Algorithm and Implementation for GeoOntologies Alignment. 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_9
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