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Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
The modifiable areal unit problem, MAUP, is ever-present although not always appreciated. Through real examples, this article outlines the basic causes of MAUP, namely changes in the size, shape, and/or orientation of spatial categories/polygons used to map areal data. The visual effects of changes...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151983/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10406-8 |
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| description | The modifiable areal unit problem, MAUP, is ever-present although not always appreciated. Through real examples, this article outlines the basic causes of MAUP, namely changes in the size, shape, and/or orientation of spatial categories/polygons used to map areal data. The visual effects of changes to mapped data are obvious even though the impacts on our understanding of the world are profound. The article concludes with a discussion of technical and broader strategic approaches for confronting the effects of MAUP on our treatment and interpretation of areal data. |
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| spelling | pubmed-71519832020-04-13 Modifiable Areal Unit Problem Buzzelli, Michael International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Article The modifiable areal unit problem, MAUP, is ever-present although not always appreciated. Through real examples, this article outlines the basic causes of MAUP, namely changes in the size, shape, and/or orientation of spatial categories/polygons used to map areal data. The visual effects of changes to mapped data are obvious even though the impacts on our understanding of the world are profound. The article concludes with a discussion of technical and broader strategic approaches for confronting the effects of MAUP on our treatment and interpretation of areal data. 2020 2019-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7151983/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10406-8 Text en Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151983/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10406-8 |
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