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Conclusions: What Is Known and What Is Still Challenging About Landmarks

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This chapter concludes the book. It briefly summarizes what we have discussed in the previous six chapters and then looks ahead. In particular, we contemplate what it takes for a geospatial system to be intelligent , and what we still miss at the moment in order to build such systems. Overall, we believe that we have provided an appreciation and better understanding of both the challenges and potential of landmarks in intelligent geospatial systems.

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    Kai-Florian Richter

  2. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

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Richter, KF., Winter, S. (2014). Conclusions: What Is Known and What Is Still Challenging About Landmarks. In: Landmarks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05732-3_7

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