Post on 01-Jan-2016
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Spatial thinking• Fundamental spatial concepts
– atomic elements of spatial reasoning– domain-independent?– space-independent?– lists
• Union of published lists– 130
• Relationships– specialization/generalization– formalization, metrics– overlaps with
Geospatial technologies• Implementations of spatial concepts
– formalized
• Legacies– 510 procedures in the ArcGIS 9.2 toolkit– no organizing principles– the potential for a new user interface
• Technology is becoming transparent– in a world of Google Earth what does everyone
need to know?
Intellectual merit• Geographic space is familiar
– a widespread belief that intuition is sufficient– science of the familiar
• Are there spatial concepts that are not intuitive?– and that need to be learned, understood?– conditional on education level?– what are the fundamental spatial concepts that
are not intuitive to undergraduates?– in specified discipline?– how would you identify a spatial thinker?