Review
"Academics and practitioners who deal with and model geographic space and processes will find this book a valuable addition to their reference and reading collection. Further, the simple writing style and clarity of the contents will make this book suitable across many levels of learning and instruction, including advanced classroom seminars. Given the depth and breadth of the coverage of issues, together with the central importance of knowledge representation in the geographic information science discipline, this book is good value for money. Moreover, the synthesis contained in Representations of Space and Time will make this book an enduring classic in the discipline."--Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
Excerpted from Representations of Space and Time by Donna J. Peuquet. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
PART I: THEORIES OF WORLD KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
1. Introduction
2. Representation versus Reality
3. Acquiring World Knowledge: The Overall Process
4. Storing World Knowledge: Some Elements of Conceptual Structure
5. Acquiring World Knowledge through Direct Experience
6. From Observation to Understanding
7. Acquiring Geographic Knowledge through Indirect Experience
8. How Spatial Knowledge Is Encoded
PART II: THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL FOR STORING AND ACQUIRING SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE
Introduction to Part II: New Tools, New Opportunities
9. The Computer as Medium
10. Storing Geographic Data
11. A New Perspective for Geographic Database Representation
12. Interacting with Databases
13. Issues for Implementing Advanced Geographic Databases
14. Epilogue: Moving Forward
1. Introduction
2. Representation versus Reality
3. Acquiring World Knowledge: The Overall Process
4. Storing World Knowledge: Some Elements of Conceptual Structure
5. Acquiring World Knowledge through Direct Experience
6. From Observation to Understanding
7. Acquiring Geographic Knowledge through Indirect Experience
8. How Spatial Knowledge Is Encoded
PART II: THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL FOR STORING AND ACQUIRING SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE
Introduction to Part II: New Tools, New Opportunities
9. The Computer as Medium
10. Storing Geographic Data
11. A New Perspective for Geographic Database Representation
12. Interacting with Databases
13. Issues for Implementing Advanced Geographic Databases
14. Epilogue: Moving Forward
