Re–Presenting GIS
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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 theusefulness 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 thenature 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...Похожие книги
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