Human Cognition of the Spatial World (006)

• This section has two primary segments: 1.1.1, Human Cognition of the Spatial World (prepared by Dan Montello), and 1.1.2, Asking Geographic Questions (prepared by Timothy Nyerges and Reginald G. Golledge). The first section sets the scene by differentiating between objects and processes and by using fundamental understanding of the spatial world to provide a necessary knowledge base for GIS. The second section builds on that knowledge base to demonstrate how specific knowledge about objects and spatial relations among them can be unpacked by the mechanism of asking geographic questions.

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