Putting geographical information science in place–towards theories of platial information and platial information systems

FB Mocnik - Progress in Human Geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Place is a concept that can hardly be formally captured at the moment, as it is unclear how
instances of places can formally be represented and how conclusions about places can …

Similarity matching for integrating spatial information extracted from place descriptions

J Kim, M Vasardani, S Winter - International Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Place descriptions are used in everyday communication as a common way to convey spatial
information. Processing the information from place descriptions poses multiple significant …

From descriptions to depictions: A conceptual framework

M Vasardani, S Timpf, S Winter, M Tomko - Spatial Information Theory …, 2013 - Springer
People use verbal descriptions and graphical depictions to communicate spatial information,
thus externalizing their spatial mental representations. In many situations, such as in …

[HTML][HTML] On the road again: Displaying knowledge of place in multiparty conversations in the remote Australian outback

L Stirling, R Gardner, I Mushin, J Blythe… - Journal of Pragmatics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article we examine displays of epistemic status and stance among long-term Anglo-
Australian residents of remote communities through a case study of a 2-h interaction by four …

Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis

D Kremer, T Felgenhauer - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2022 - nature.com
As other crises before, the COVID-19 pandemic put established discursive routines at stake.
By framing the pandemic as a crisis, an immediate search for adequate counter-measures …

Placial-discursive topologies of violence: volunteered geographic information and the reproduction of violent places in Recife, Brazil

C Moura de Souza, D Kremer, BB Walker - ISPRS international journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Knowledge and experiences of violence transform the ways in which individuals perceive
the urban landscape, construct and reproduce (un) safety, and make everyday decisions …

Granularity of locations referred to by place descriptions

D Richter, S Winter, KF Richter, L Stirling - Computers, environment and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Place descriptions are a predominant means of human spatial communication. Their
automated interpretation still poses a challenge for geospatial services. This paper explores …

From descriptions to depictions: A dynamic sketch map drawing strategy

J Kim, M Vasardani, S Winter - Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
People use verbal descriptions to communicate spatial information, externalising relevant
parts of their mental spatial representations. In many situations, such as emergency …

Deriving the geographic footprint of cognitive regions

H Hobel, P Fogliaroni, AU Frank - Geospatial data in a changing world …, 2016 - Springer
The characterization of place and its representation in current Geographic Information
System (GIS) has become a prominent research topic. This paper concentrates on places …

Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering

E Egorova, T Tenbrink, RS Purves - Spatial Cognition & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Fictive motion in language (as in “the ridge went north”) is claimed to reflect the attention
focus of the observer on the extension and spatial layout of an entity. This paper investigates …