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Mapping the Names of American Businesses: A Teaching and Software Aid.

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Alderman, Derek H.; Good, Daniel B. – Journal of Geography, 1996

Reviews two software programs, "PhoneDisc Business95" and "BusinessMAP LTF," that offer user-friendly, low-cost, and quick methods of identifying and mapping patterns of the names of U.S. businesses. This software can be used to help students understand how populations see and define themselves regionally and visualize the demographic spread of…

Descriptors: Built Environment, Business, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation

The Geographic Profile.

Peer reviewed

Dahmann, Donald C. – Journal of Geography, 1996

Reintroduces and updates the geographic profile as a visualization technique for representing and analyzing the structure of geographical information. A computer software-generated profile focuses on specific information (persons per square mile in selected cities) and represents that information spatially on a graph. (MJP)

Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation