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Four Arguments Why Places and Information About Places Are Inextricably Interwoven (Short Paper)

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Abstract

Research on information about places can often practically not be clearly demarcated from research on the places themselves. This is not a problem itself but raises the question of how geographical information science and human geography mutually relate. This paper discusses four arguments as to why places and information about them are inextricably interwoven in many cases. The difficulty in finding a demarcation between the two lines of research is thus not due to a lack of academic engagement with these topics but rather due to the subject matter itself. Consequently, research on the role of information in the context of places is indispensable for the study of places themselves. This raises the question again as to whether the separation of geographical information science and geography, as they are currently lived by distinctly different communities of practice, is justified.

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Franz-Benjamin Mocnik. Four Arguments Why Places and Information About Places Are Inextricably Interwoven (Short Paper). In 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 315, pp. 16:1-16:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.16

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Franz-Benjamin Mocnik
  • Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria

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This publication has been supported by the EXDIGIT (Excellence in Digital Sciences and Interdisciplinary Technologies) project, funded by Land Salzburg grant number 20204-WISS/263/6-6022.

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my sincere thanks to Maia Williams and Simon Scheider for the insightful discussions on the content of this paper.

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