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New more standard tools will allow in the next future to make TISS available across the 
Net, and to extent this new integrated approach to territorial analysis and representation. 
Acknowledgments'. This work is being developed in the framework of a research project funded 
by CNR, to realise a system for integrated GIS based on virtual reality techniques (RV-GIS). 
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