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Hierarchies and Level of Detail

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Level of detail; LOD; Acyclic directed graph; Partial order; Abstraction; Cognition; Aggregation; Generalizing; Filtering

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a Partial ordering: tree; b levels in a hierarchy

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  1. Department for Computer Science VI, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Sabine Timpf

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Timpf, S. (2008). Hierarchies and Level of Detail. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_566

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