Everything in Its Place: GPS, GIS, and Geography in the 1990s∗

Abler, Ronald

doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1993.00131.x

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“…Second, GIS students are involved in activities in which various spatial reasoning skills are used. The notion of GIScience, the foundation for organizing GIS courses, emphasizes spatial concepts and thinking skills (Abler, 1993;Dobson, 1993;Goodchild, 2004;Rhind, 1992). Students learn not only the definitions and connotations of key spatial concepts, they also acquire skills to apply those concepts to a wide range of contexts.…”

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“…In the lecture, students learned fundamental principles and concepts related to GIScience (Abler, 1993;Dobson, 1993;Goodchild, 2004;Rhind, 1992). In the laboratory session, students were engaged in hands-on experience using GIS software, studying diverse aspects of GIS functionality, such as database management, map projection, and spatial analysis.…”

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Development of critical spatial thinking through GIS learning

Kim¹,

Bednarz²

2013

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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This study developed an interview-based critical spatial thinking oral test and used the test to investigate the effects of Geographic Information System (GIS) learning on three components of critical spatial thinking: evaluating data reliability, exercising spatial reasoning, and assessing problem-solving validity. Thirty-two students at a large state university completed pre-and post-tests administered during the 2010 fall semester. This study found positive relationships between GIS learning and critical spatial thinking. We argue that the improvement can be attributed to students' experiences in a GIS course.

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Development of critical spatial thinking through GIS learning

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Bednarz²

2013

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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“…Fourth, GIS is based on fundamental spatial concepts. As the definition of GIS has been extended to GIScience (Goodchild 1992(Goodchild , 2004Rhind 1992;Abler 1993;Dobson 1993), GIS courses have begun to include a wider range of basic spatial concepts and to give students an understanding that spatial concepts are the building blocks of GIS analyses. Hence, GIS learning should help students use spatial concepts more effectively.…”

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Effects of a GIS Course on Self-Assessment of Spatial Habits of Mind (SHOM)

Kim

Bednarz

2013

Journal of Geography

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This study identified five subdimensions of spatial habits of mind-pattern recognition, spatial description, visualization, spatial concept use, and spatial tool use-and created an inventory to measure them. In addition, the effects of GIS learning on spatial habits of mind were investigated. Preand post-tests were conducted at the beginning and end of a semester-long GIS course. The results suggest that the inventory is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring spatial habits of mind. Analysis of student responses revealed that completion of a GIS course enhanced their spatial habits of mind. It is believed that this research is relevant to a wide range of disciplines whose practitioners are interested in spatial literacy.

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“…As Abler (1993) noted, “GPS equipment will tell me where I am with great precision… But knowing precisely where I am may not be very helpful. Location, no matter how precisely specified, is sterile in and of itself.…”

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“…More than any other field, he argues, “the subject matter of geography approximates the world of general discourse; the palpable present, the everyday life of man on earth, is seldom far from our professional concerns…geography observes and analyzes aspects of the milieu on the scale and in the categories that they are usually apprehended in everyday life” (241). Along similar lines, when referring to the experience of RTI GPS/GIS mapping, Ron Abler (1993) noted that, “Few geographers will be able to resist the seduction of creating new maps interactively, in real time, amid the real phenomena the maps represent, while at the same time referring to and revising the background maps for the area contained in portable geographic information systems carried into the field. The capability for displaying to a person in the field background maps, the map being created, and the individuals changing position on both background and new maps will arouse the dormant field work virus lurking in even the most ardent armchair geographer” (135).…”

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Real-TimeSpace–Time Integration in GIScience and Geography

Richardson

2013

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Space-time integration has long been the topic of study and speculation in geography. However, in recent years an entirely new form of space-time integration has become possible in GIS and GIScience: real-time space-time integration and interaction. While real-time spatiotemporal data is now being generated almost ubiquitously, and its applications in research and commerce are widespread and rapidly accelerating, the ability to continuously create and interact with fused space-time data in geography and GIScience is a recent phenomenon, made possible by the invention and development of real-time interactive (RTI) GPS/GIS technology and functionality in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This innovation has since functioned as a core change agent in geography, cartography, GIScience and many related fields, profoundly realigning traditional relationships and structures, expanding research horizons, and transforming the ways geographic data is now collected, mapped, modeled, and used, both in geography and in science and society more broadly. Real-time space-time interactive functionality remains today the underlying process generating the current explosion of fused spatiotemporal data, new geographic research initiatives, and myriad geospatial applications in governments, businesses, and society. This essay addresses briefly the development of these real-time space-time functions and capabilities; their impact on geography, cartography, and GIScience; and some implications for how discovery and change can occur in geography and GIScience, and how we might foster continued innovation in these fields.

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Everything in Its Place: GPS, GIS, and Geography in the 1990s∗

Cited by 30 publications

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Development of critical spatial thinking through GIS learning

Development of critical spatial thinking through GIS learning

Effects of a GIS Course on Self-Assessment of Spatial Habits of Mind (SHOM)

Real-TimeSpace–Time Integration in GIScience and Geography

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