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... > social science subjects > geography > geoinformatics > geographic information science > organizational and institutional aspects > Experimental Cartography Unit

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Experimental Cartography Unit  

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  • The Experimental Cartography Unit (ECU) was a research unit of Britain's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), initially established at the Clarendon Press in Oxford, in 1967, to advance the art, science, technology, and practice of making maps by computers. The ECU was a phenomenon. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Experimental Cartography Unit]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PPXLX406-C

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