“…Recently, some progress has been made, as is evident in a number of outlook and foresight articles (Goodchild, 2015;Sui and Goodchild, 2011) as well as review articles (Hamzei et al, 2020;Wagner et al, 2020;Purves et al, 2019;Merschdorf and Blaschke, 2018). First conceptual and methodical attempts to analytically assess place (Mayer et al, 2020;Scheider and Janowicz, 2014;Gao et al, 2013;Winter and Freksa, 2012) and develop corresponding visualisation approaches (Bleisch and Hollenstein, 2018;Mocnik and Fairbairn, 2018;Westerholt et al, 2018a). Yet, there is still a lack of a holistic consistent theory of how places can be characterised, represented and used in a formal way.…”