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Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space

New Perspectives on Geographic Information Research

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Editors:
  1. Martin Raubal

    1. , Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  2. David M. Mark

    1. , Department of Geography, University of Buffalo, New York, USA

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  3. Andrew U. Frank

    1. , Institute for Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

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  • Presents cognitive and linguistic aspects of geographic space
  • Assesses the achievements of research in this field in the last twenty years
  • Documents an interdisciplinary research agenda for the future
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Researching Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space: Las Navas Then and Now

    • Andrew U. Frank, David Mark, Martin Raubal
    Pages 1-22

  3. Spatial Computing

    • Christian Freksa
    Pages 23-42

  4. The Cognitive Development of the Spatial Concepts NEXT, NEAR, AWAY and FAR

    • Scott Freundschuh, Mark Blades
    Pages 43-62

  5. From Compasses and Maps to Mountains and Territories: Experimental Results on Geographic Cognitive Categorization

    • Leda Giannakopoulou, Marinos Kavouras, Margarita Kokla, David Mark
    Pages 63-81

  6. Prospects and Challenges of Landmarks in Navigation Services

    • Kai-Florian Richter
    Pages 83-97

  7. Landmarks and a Hiking Ontology to Support Wayfinding in a National Park During Different Seasons

    • Tiina Sarjakoski, Pyry Kettunen, Hanna-Marika Halkosaari, Mari Laakso, Mikko Rönneberg, Hanna Stigmar et al.
    Pages 99-119

  8. Talking About Place Where it Matters

    • Stephan Winter, Marie Truelove
    Pages 121-139

  9. Many to Many Mobile Maps

    • Stephen C. Hirtle, Martin Raubal
    Pages 141-157

  10. Cognitive and Linguistic Ideas in Geographic Information Semantics

    • Werner Kuhn
    Pages 159-174

  11. Spatial Relation Predicates in Topographic Feature Semantics

    • Dalia E. Varanka, Holly K. Caro
    Pages 175-193

  12. The Egenhofer–Cohn Hypothesis or, Topological Relativity?

    • Alexander Klippel, Rui Li, Jinlong Yang, Frank Hardisty, Sen Xu
    Pages 195-215

  13. Twenty Years of Topological Logic

    • Ian Pratt-Hartmann
    Pages 217-235

  14. Reasoning on Class Relations: An Overview

    • Stephan Mäs
    Pages 237-257

  15. Creating Perceptually Salient Animated Displays of Spatiotemporal Coordination in Events

    • Thomas F. Shipley, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Anna-Katharina Lautenschütz
    Pages 259-270

  16. Exploring and Reasoning About Perceptual Spaces for Theatre, New Media Installations and the Performing Arts

    • Geoffrey Edwards, Marie Louise Bourbeau, Gérard Ligozat, René Dupéré, David Duguay
    Pages 271-287

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 289-296
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About this book

20 years ago, from July 8 to 20, 1990, 60 researchers gathered for two weeks at Castillo-Palacio Magalia in Las Navas del Marques (Avila Province, Spain) to discuss cognitive and linguistic aspects of geographic space. This meeting was the start of successful research on cognitive issues in geographic information science, produced an edited book (D. M. Mark and A. U. Frank, Eds., 1991, Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space. NATO ASI Series D: Behavioural and Social Sciences 63. Kluwer, Dordrecht/Boston/London), and led to a biannual conference (COSIT), a refereed journal (Spatial Cognition and Computation), and a substantial and still growing research community.

It appeared worthwhile to assess the achievements and to reconsider the research challenges twenty years later. What has changed in the age of computational ontologies and cyber-infrastructures? Consider that 1990 the web was only about to emerge and the very first laptops had just appeared! The 2010 meeting brought together many of the original participants, but was also open to others, and invited contributions from all who are researching these topics. Early-career scientists, engineers, and humanists working at the intersection of cognitive science and geographic information science were invited to help with the re-assessment of research needs and approaches.

The meeting was very successful and compared the research agenda laid out in the 1990 book with achievements over the past twenty years and then turned to the future: What are the challenges today? What are worthwhile goals for basic research? What can be achieved in the next 20 years? What are the lessons learned?
This edited book will assess the current state of the field through chapters by participants in the 1990 and 2010 meetings and will also document an interdisciplinary research agenda for the future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Martin Raubal

  • , Department of Geography, University of Buffalo, New York, USA

    David M. Mark

  • , Institute for Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Andrew U. Frank

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space

  • Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on Geographic Information Research

  • Editors: Martin Raubal, David M. Mark, Andrew U. Frank

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34359-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-34358-2Published: 31 January 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44375-6Published: 26 June 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-34359-9Published: 30 January 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1863-2246

  • Series E-ISSN: 1863-2351

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 296

  • Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography

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