Place reference systems

Scheider, Simon; Janowicz, Krzysztof

doi:10.3233/ao-140134

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“…As such, affordances are "what objects or things offer people to do with them, (thus) creating potential activities for users" [54] (p. 4), making them inherently subjective. Affordances can consist of sets of realized or unrealized affordances [55].…”

Section: Affordancesmentioning

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Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

Merschdorf

Blaschke

2018

IJGI

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Although place-based investigations into human phenomena have been widely conducted in the social sciences over the last decades, this notion has only recently transgressed into Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Such a place-based GIS comprises research from computational place modeling on one end of the spectrum, to purely theoretical discussions on the other end. Central to all research that is concerned with place-based GIS is the notion of placing the individual at the center of the investigation, in order to assess human-environment relationships. This requires the formalization of place, which poses a number of challenges. The first challenge is unambiguously defining place, to subsequently be able to translate it into binary code, which computers and geographic information systems can handle. This formalization poses the next challenge, due to the inherent vagueness and subjectivity of human data. The last challenge is ensuring the transferability of results, requiring large samples of subjective data. In this paper, we re-examine the meaning of place in GIScience from a 2018 perspective, determine what is special about place, and how place is handled both in GIScience and in neighboring disciplines. We, therefore, adopt the view that space is a purely geographic notion, reflecting the dimensions of height, depth, and width in which all things occur and move, while place reflects the subjective human perception of segments of space based on context and experience. Our main research questions are whether place is or should be a significant (sub)topic in GIScience, whether it can be adequately addressed and handled with established GIScience methods, and, if not, which other disciplines must be considered to sufficiently account for place-based analyses. Our aim is to conflate findings from a vast and dynamic field in an attempt to position place-based GIS within the broader framework of GIScience.

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Section: Affordancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

Merschdorf

Blaschke

2018

IJGI

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“…With respect to similar approaches of describing place which are driven by the essential kinds of place inference (Tuan, 1977), such as the work of Scheider and Janowicz (2014), the proposed approach is comparatively more objective, since it does not depend solely on an individual's capabilities or judgment. Instead, it relies on widely accepted definitions of places and functions that resemble Alexander's property of echo (Vasardani, Tomko, & Winter, 2016).…”

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Composition of place: towards a compositional view of functional space

Papadakis

Resch

Blaschke

2019

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

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A long-standing question in GIScience is whether geographic information systems (GIS) facilitates an adequate quantifiable representation of the concept of place. Considering the difficulties of quantifying elusive concepts related to place, several researchers focus on more tangible dimensions of the human understanding of place. The most common approaches are semantic enrichment of spatial information and holistic conceptualization of the notion of place. However, these approaches give emphasis on either space or human meaning, or they mainly exist as concepts without practically proven usable artifacts. A partial answer to this problem was proposed by the function-based model that treats place as functional space. This paper focuses primarily on the level of composition, describing and formalizing it as a rule-based framework with the following objectives: (a) contribute to the formalization efforts of the notion of place and its integration within GIS and (b) maintain tangible properties intertwined with the human understanding of place. The operationalization potential of the proposed framework is illustrated with an example of identifying the shopping areas in an urban region. The results show that the proposed model is able to capture all shopping malls as well as other areas that are not explicitly labeled as such but still function similarly to a shopping mall. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Different ontologies are studying the way of formal representation of geographical objects (Ballatore, 2016;Frank, 2001;Kuhn, 2003;Scheider& Janowicz, 2014;Scheider, Janowicz, & Kuhn, 2009;Smith & Mark, 2001). Ontologies such as DOLCE and WordNet apply cognitive and linguistic perspective focusing on the semantics of natural language terms and the ways of structuring human understandings of space.…”

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Ontological Assessment and Significance of Semantic Levels of Tags in Openstreetmap

Ahmadian

Hakimpour

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. User-generated contents are developing rapidly through VGI and contributors create the tags through the Web applications in a free mechanism. Semantic Knowledge in VGI like other user-generated contents needs to be combined with other authoritative data sources. One of the main challenges of integration is the semantic heterogeneity of user-generated contents which are describing the geographical objects as POIs. Geographical objects can be described in different semantic levels such as purpose or function. Significance of semantic levels defines the importance of related attributes. Analysis of significance for semantic levels of different POIs can be considered as a base to enhance the semantic quality of VGI. This paper proposes an approach based on the notions of rough set theory to measure the significance of semantic levels of tags which are applied to describe the buildings in OpenStreetMap. The proposed approach is implemented for tags which are applied to describe buildings in OpenStreetMap. Results show the high significance for tags which describing the semantic levels of geographic information constructs and purpose/ function for buildings.

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Place reference systems

Cited by 41 publications

References 41 publications

Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

Composition of place: towards a compositional view of functional space

Ontological Assessment and Significance of Semantic Levels of Tags in Openstreetmap

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