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 concept of place has recently gained importance in geographical information science
(GIScience). One reason for this is the emergence of user-generated geographic …

For many, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related libraries for programming
languages define the terrain of geographical computing today. But what if GIS were locales …

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 …

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 …

Observed regional variation in geotagged social media text is often attributed to dialects,
where features in language are assumed to exhibit region-specific properties. While dialects …

The lack of a well‐established and unified place theory across disciplines is decelerating its
formalization, evolution, and especially its pragmatic implications and applicability. In this …

Location-based games have become popular in recent years, with Pokémon Go and Ingress
being two very prominent examples. Some location-based games, known as Serious …

This article contributes to understanding the difference between objective space and
subjective place. New data models and visual methods, which make possible the …

Looking back at a selection of film, photography and popular media produced since the end
of the apartheid era, I intend to show in this study that Johannesburg has come to be …