Posted in Publications on Feb 2nd, 2020
The concept of place has recently gained importance in geographical information science (GIScience). One reason for this is the emergence of user-generated geographic information, which partially represents subjective everyday geographical encounters. No consensus, however, on how to deal with place in GIScience has yet been reached. A recently published paper presents a systematic literature review [...]
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Posted in Events, Teaching on Sep 27th, 2019
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk!
The speaker is Prof. Dr. Stephan Winter from Melbourne University, Australia.
When: Monday 30.09.2019, 2:00 pm
Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Title: Conversing about place
‘Place’ is used here as antithesis to traditional, geometry-based geographic information systems’ capture, modelling, analysis and [...]
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Posted in Events, Research on Jul 22nd, 2019
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk!
The speaker is Dr. René Westerholt from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK.
When: Monday 29.07.2019, 2:15 pm
Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Place in GIScience - A human geographic overview of the components to be formalised
The term “place” [...]
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Posted in Publications on Jun 25th, 2019
A new journal article about Methodological aspects of the spatial analysis of geosocial media feeds: from locations towards places has just been published in gis.science Vol 2 2019. It covers some main aspects and findings of the PhD Thesis of our team member Rene Westerholt (now at Warwick UK) and relates those to the analysis of place in [...]
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Posted in Publications on Feb 5th, 2019
Transactions in GIS - Special Issue about MODELLING AND ANALYSING PLATIAL REPRESENTATIONS.
Editors: R Westerholt , F-B Mocnik, A Comber, C Davies, D Burghardt, and A Zipf
A place for place – modelling and analysing platial representations
Places are understood as locations and areas to which anthropogenic meaning is ascribed. As such, places have been of central interest [...]
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Posted in Publications, Research on Aug 28th, 2018
Two papers from GIScience Heidelberg have been contributed to and accepted for the 10th International GIScience Conference 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. They will be presented on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Looking forward to a fruitful discussion!
Westerholt, R., Gröbe, M., Zipf, A. and Burghardt, D. (2018): Towards the statistical analysis and visualization of places. 10th International [...]
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Posted in Crowd Analyser, Events, Publications on Aug 14th, 2018
The concept of place recently gains momentum in GIScience. In some fields like human geography, spatial cognition or information theory, this topic already has a longer scholarly tradition. This is however not yet completely the case with statistical spatial analysis and cartography. Despite that, taking full advantage of the plethora of user-generated information that we [...]
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