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A Case for Geographic Masses Plewe, Brandon S. Ontology Masses Geographic masses, the stuff we deal with that cannot be categorized as geographic objects, comprise a crucial but largely unrecognized component of the core ontology of geographic information. Although masses have been rarely acknowledged in GIScience, they appear in geographic discourse just as often as objects. A concise but consistent formal definition of a geographic mass particular, which distinguishes a mass from an object, can be applied to any endurant phenomena, enabling a richer understanding of the geographic milieu, and more informed decision making during modeling and analysis processes. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Brandon S. Plewe 2019 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 142, 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.14 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-111062 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2019.14 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode