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9780470848470

Re-Presenting Gis

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470848470

  • ISBN10:

    0470848472

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-10-14
  • Publisher: Wiley

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Summary

'Geographical information science' is not merely a technical subject but also poses theoretical questions on the nature of geographic representation and whether there exist limits on the ability of GI systems to deal with certain objects and issues. This book presents the debate surrounding technical GIS and theory of representation from an 'inside' GIS perspective. Chapters are authored by leading researchers from a range of fields including geographers, planners, ecologists and computer scientists from Europe and North America.

Author Biography

Peter Fisher is the editor of Re-Presenting GIS, published by Wiley.

David J. Unwin, MPhil, formerly Professor of Geography at Birkbeck College in the University of London, UK, is currently Director of Learning Programmes at UKeUniversities Worldwide. He is also the author of Computer Programming for Geographers (with J. A. Dawson) and coeditor of Visualization in Geographic Information Systems (with Hilary M. Hearnshaw), both published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Preface ix
Re-presenting Geographical Information Systems
1(16)
Peter Fisher
David J. Unwin
PART I NOT JUST OBJECTS
Not Just Objects: Reconstructing Objects
17(10)
Ola Ahlqvist
Peter Bibby
Matt Duckham
Peter Fisher
Francis Harvey
Nadine Schuurman
Social Dimensions of Object Definition in GIS
27(16)
Nadine Schuurman
The Linguistic Trading Zones of Semantic Interoperability
43(12)
Francis Harvey
GIS, Worldmaking and Natural Language
55(30)
Peter Bibby
Land Use and Land Cover: Contradiction or Complement
85(14)
Peter Fisher
Alexis Comber
Richard Wadsworth
Transformation of Geographic Information using Crisp, Fuzzy and Rough Semantics
99(14)
Ola Ahlqvist
Uncertainty and Geographic Information: Computational and Critical Convergence
113(14)
Matt Duckham
Joanne Sharp
PART II NOT JUST SPACE
Not Just Space: An Introduction
127(8)
Michael Batty
Antony Galton
Marcos Llobera
The QSS Framework for Modelling Qualitative Change: Prospects and Problems
135(14)
Antony Galton
Network Geography: Relations, Interactions, Scaling and Spatial Processes in GIS
149(22)
Michael Batty
The Nature of Everyday Experience: Examples from the Study of Visual Space
171(24)
Marcos Llobera
PART III TIME AS WELL
Time As Well: An Introduction
195(4)
Jonathan Raper
Harvey J. Miller
Subhrajit Guhathakurta
Robert Muetzelfeldt
Tao Cheng
Spatio-Temporal Ontology for Digital Geographies
199(6)
Jonathan Raper
Modeling and Visualizing Linear and Cyclic Changes
205(10)
Tao Cheng
What about People in Geographic Information Science?
215(28)
Harvey J. Miller
Dynamic Spatial Modelling in the Simile Visual Modelling Environment
243(14)
Robert Muetzelfeldt
Matt Duckham
Telling Stories with Models: Reflecting on Land Use and Ecological Trends in the San Pedro Watershed
257(20)
Subhrajit Guhathakurta
PART IV NOT `THERE' YET?
Conclusion: Towards a Research Agenda
277(6)
David J. Unwin
Peter Fisher
Index 283

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