This chapter reviews visualization techniques that can not only be utilized to map the
evergrowing domain structure of scientific disciplines but that also support information …

Information visualization is an interdisciplinary research area in which cartographic efforts
have mostly addressed the handling of geographic information. Some cartographers have …

In this commentary we build on Shenkar's (2001) award-winning critique of cultural distance,
arguing that most distance constructs, in fact, suffer the same flaws because they …

Learning to Think Spatially examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into
existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be …

GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of GIS,
both Geographic Information Systems and the study of Geographic Information Science …

Relying on the fecund interface of three fields—studies in science, risk geography, and
knowledge management—this paper notes first that the lack of understanding of the …

Why are notions like semantics and ontologies suddenly getting so much attention, within
and outside geospatial information communities? The main reason lies in the …

In the world of geospatial technologies, change is afoot. In the past five years, we have seen
the emergence of a wide array of new technologies that enable an ever-expanding range of …

There have been several obstacles to an embrace of critical theoretical work in GIScience;
chief among them is the barrier between conceptualization and formalization. Early critics of …

Humans have always exchanged geographic information, but the practice has grown
exponentially in recent years with the popularization of the Internet and the Web, and with …