Representations of Geographic Space
Toward a Conceptual Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna J Peuquet (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 375-394 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1988.tb00214.x |
| OpenAlex | W2057681318 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 20 |
The need for a conceptually high-level, unifying representational scheme for geographic phenomena was recognized long ago. A number of attempts to address this issue have been made in the past, and each has usually been centered around a specific theoretical point of view (Bartels 1982). This topic has reappeared recently within the context of geographical information systems (GIS). Recognizing that the representational scheme employed in large part determines the efficiency and ease of use within a given application context, there has been much activity in developing better methods for representing geographic data in digital form. Nevertheless, progress has been slow, with such activity usually focused on narrowly viewed implementational issues with no clear answers or overall insights toward solving the overall problem. This vacuum suggests the need for a more unified approach to both research in methods of representing geographic data and practical geographic database design based on a common and unified framework. Representational theories for spatial and non-spatial phenomena developed within other fields, particularly cognitive and perceptual psychology, computer vision and database management systems, are examined within the context of the geographic literature. Drawing on and combining these concepts with a top-down approach, I suggest a set of unifying principles and an overall frame-work for representing geographical phenomena based on these principles. This effort includes an enumeration of basic types of spatial relationships and their characteristics. Although the framework as presented is very general, it seems to represent a complete blending of previous “geometric” and “perceptual” approaches, demonstrating that these approaches are not only compatible but complementary. The theories developed in other disciplines provide insight into the functional relationship between the image-based and object-based views that have existed implicitly in Geography for many years
Cartography · Cognition · Context (archaeology) · Data science · Epistemology · Geographic information system · Geography · Perception · Point (geometry) · Set (abstract data type) · Space (punctuation) · Spatial analysis · Spatial cognition · Spatial contextual awareness · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Data Management and Algorithms · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Mathematics · Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Mapping Maritime Power and Control
Application of Environmental Learning Theory to Spatial Knowledge Acquisition from Maps
Representation
Exploring uncertainties in terrain feature extraction across multi-scale, multi-feature, and multi-method approaches for variable terrain
Transportation geography and geographic thought in the United States
Threshold concepts in geographical information systems
An Activity-Based Learning Approach for Key Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Concepts
Gis and Urban Studies
Experiential and Formal Models of Geographic Space
Social Perspectives on Semantic Interoperability
Spatial Autocorrelation and Eigenfunctions of the Geographic Weights Matrix Accompanying Geo‐referenced Data
Technology and Map-Learning
It's About Time
How Cognitive Maps are Learned and Remembered
Object-Oriented Representation of Environmental Phenomena
The Geography of the Commons
A Century of Method-Oriented Scholarship in the Annals
Categorical Measurement Semantics
Fractal Analysis of Multiscale Spatial Autocorrelation among Point Data
Geographic Information Abstractions
For geographical imagination systems
Semantics and cognition
Distance and space
Theoretical geography
Human Memory
Basic objects in natural categories
On the Internal Structure of Perceptual and Semantic Categories11this Research Was Supported in Part by a Grant to the Author (Under Her Former Name, Eleanor Rosch Heider) From the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry # G67-392, in Part by Funds Made Available to the Child Study Center of Brown University From the Grant Foundation and From the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Collaborative Project (Ph-43-68-13), and in Part by Research Funds Made Available by the University of California at Berkeley (220 Grant #K9pf-429). I Wish to Thank Karl G. Heider for His Help in the Field in West Irian (Indonesian New Guinea), Dr. Robert Olton for Assistance in Carrying Out Experiment 3, and Keith Burton, Randy Street, and Peter Lewitt Who Assisted With Experiment 4. Experiment 4 Was Performed With Dr. Richard Millward While the Author Was a Research Associate at Brown University.
Spatial Processes
The Implications of Psychological Theory and Methodology for Cognitive Cartography
Approaches to Regional Analysis
Exceptionalism in Geography
Parallel Distributed Processing
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2021 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |