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Acknowledgments

This research has been funded by the Semantic Reference Systems II project (DFG KU 1368/4-2), the SimCat project (DFG Ra1062/2-1 and Ja1709/2-2, see sim-dl.sourceforge.net), and the International Research Training Group on Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information (DFG GRK 1498, see irtg-sigi.uni-muenster.de).

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