Re-Presenting GIS - Hardcover

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Peter Fisher is the editor of Re-Presenting GIS, published by Wiley.

David J. Unwin, MPhil, formerly Professor of Geography at Birkbeck College in the University of London, UK, is currently Director of Learning Programmes at UKeUniversities Worldwide. He is also the author of Computer Programming for Geographers (with J. A. Dawson) and coeditor of Visualization in Geographic Information Systems (with Hilary M. Hearnshaw), both published by Wiley.

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The increasingly widespread use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has meant that a version of ‘geography’ has been exported to many other disciplines and walks of life where this technology has been found to be useful. In the analysis of geographic information, ‘geography’ is often short hand for the spaces and distances used to explain or model some phenomenon. Typically, it is the usefulness of this, in turn almost entirely a consequence of the phenomenon of spatial autocorrelation, which explains the evident popularity of GIS.

The academic underpinning of GIS, Geographical Information Science is not merely a technical subject; it poses difficult theoretical questions on the nature of geographic representation and whether or not there exist limits on the ability of GIS to deal with certain objects and issues. This book attempts to synthesize the different strands of debate between technical GIS issues and social-theory of GI Science representation by looking at the conceptual and applied aspects of the subject in one cohesive volume.

This is the first book to present the debate surrounding technical GIS and theory of representation from an ‘inside’ GIS perspective.

The chapters have been split into three distinct sections exploring objects, time and space; their interaction with each other and with GIS

Re-presenting GIS is aimed at:

• advanced students (undergraduate and postgraduate) taking courses in GIS
• academic researchers in GI Science and Computer Science with interests in the modelling of spatial information and
• practitioners involved with GIS who need an accessible guide to current thinking in GI Science research.

The Workshop that gave rise to this book was organized with the generous assistance of the UK Economic and Social Research Council, under its Research Seminar series. The editors wish to express their gratitude.

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The increasingly widespread use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has meant that a version of ‘geography’ has been exported to many other disciplines and walks of life where this technology has been found to be useful. In the analysis of geographic information, ‘geography’ is often short hand for the spaces and distances used to explain or model some phenomenon. Typically, it is the usefulness of this, in turn almost entirely a consequence of the phenomenon of spatial autocorrelation, which explains the evident popularity of GIS.

The academic underpinning of GIS, Geographical Information Science is not merely a technical subject; it poses difficult theoretical questions on the nature of geographic representation and whether or not there exist limits on the ability of GIS to deal with certain objects and issues.  This book attempts to synthesize the different strands of debate between technical GIS issues and social-theory of GI Science representation by looking at the conceptual and applied aspects of the subject in one cohesive volume.

This is the first book to present the debate surrounding technical GIS and theory of representation from an ‘inside’ GIS perspective.

The chapters have been split into three distinct sections exploring objects, time and space; their interaction with each other and with GIS

Re-presenting GIS is aimed at:

• advanced students (undergraduate and postgraduate) taking courses in GIS
• academic researchers in GI Science and Computer Science with interests in the modelling of spatial information and
• practitioners involved with GIS who need an accessible guide to current thinking in GI Science research.

The Workshop that gave rise to this book was organized with the generous assistance of the UK Economic and Social Research Council, under its Research Seminar series. The editors wish to express their gratitude.