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 …

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 …

Maps, like other types of extensive data collections, are usually created and maintained by a
larger number of individuals. The number of individuals using the map is even larger in most …

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 …

The goal of this paper is to offer a unified account of Place as a central theoretical notion
across different disciplines. We show that while psychology, geography and other sciences …

Few laws about geographical information are known, partly because geographical
information is inherently complex. Tobler's first law of Geography and, to a lesser degree …

The reasons for representing places are manifold, and so are the ways in which they are
represented. Travel guides, music, and paintings give an impression of often distant places …

Maps represent a host of geographical features, but places are usually not among those
depicted in detail. This is despite the various functions of a map, many of which refer to …

Maps are excellent as a medium for communicating spatial configurations at geographical
scales. However, the communication of thematic qualities of geographical features is …

Spatial cognition research has benefited greatly from insights and methodologies in
linguistics, adapted for the purpose of understanding how we think about space. How …