Place is a concept that can hardly be formally captured at the moment, as it is unclear how
instances of places can formally be represented and how conclusions about places can …

The paper focuses on three dimensions of Cultural Ecosystem Services—cultural heritage,
sense of place and tourism—and examines the relationships between them in a rural …

Our applied case study demonstrates how knowledge from community stakeholders about
emotional attachment (as a key component of sense of place) can inform and influence …

Urban environments constitute the habitats in which an increasing number of people live.
Place-making forms part of this living, occurring in the context of specific urban assemblages …

Many place-related questions can only be answered by complex spatial reasoning, a task
poorly supported by factoid question retrieval. Such reasoning using combinations of spatial …

Traditional boundaries between people are vanishing due to the rise of Internet of Things
technology. Our smart devices keep us connected to the world, but also monitor our daily …

The space–place dichotomy has long been discussed in geography, psychology,
philosophy, and more recently in geographic information science. The attempts to integrate …

Places are usually ambiguous and context dependent. Place functionality as a context in
place descriptions is one of the prominent and distinguishing features of place. Today, due …

Existing question answering systems struggle to answer factoid questions when geospatial
information is involved. This is because most systems cannot accurately detect the …

This editorial presents a special collection of papers addressing the concept of place and its
use in geographical information science (GIScience). The concept of place is a topic of …