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Special Section in Honour of Dr. Andrew Frank

The world, the computer, and the mind: how Andrew Frank helped make human language and cognition cornerstones of geographic information science

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Pages 2535-2550 | Received 10 Jul 2017, Accepted 31 Jan 2018, Published online: 07 Feb 2018

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