Misunderstanding geographical distances: two errors and an issue in the interpretation of violations of triangle inequality
We investigate the meaning of the mathematical properties of distances in the fields of geography and economics. The key property of metrics for spatiality is triangle inequality (TI), which is closely related to the distance optimality. We identify three different situations where several authors i...
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| Language: | deu |
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Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Cybergeo |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/27810 |