Re-Presenting Gis

'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.

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.

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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