In this article, recent achievements of cognitive research in geographic information science
(GIScience) are reviewed and prospects for future directions discussed. Cognitive research …

The nature of geographic knowledge today is very different from what it was fifty years ago. It
has evolved from phenomenal (declarative) to intellectual (primed by cognitive demands) …

In this article, we present a collective research agenda for mobile-first and responsive
cartographic design. The research agenda explicitly focuses on challenges regarding …

Recent advances in information technology have enabled scientists to generate
unprecedented amounts of earth-related data, with tremendous potential for dealing with …

Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) is a field of research that, among other things, focuses on
the use of GIS by non-experts and occasional users. These users tend to have a diverse …

The way people conceptualize space is an important consideration for the design of GIS,
because a better match with people's thinking is expected to lead to easier‐to‐use …

In the last decade, geographic information science has emerged as a focus of considerable
academic attention. To some extent, it is the Earth's New Science, just as cognitive science …

An exponentially growing volume of digital information makes extraction of relevant items
increasingly difficult. This article documents the adoption of information visualization tools by …

Spatial relations often are desired answers that a geographic information system (GIS)
should generate in response to a user's query. Current GIS's provide only rudimentary …

Virtual environment (VE) technologies have considerable potential to extend the power of
information visualization methods, and those of scientific visualization more broadly. Our …