Self-organization and associative memory: 3rd edition
Self-organization and associative memory: 3rd edition
Self-Organizing Maps
Ontology and Geographic Objects: An Empirical Study of Cognitive Categorization
COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
On Geometry and Transformation in Map-Like Information Visualization
Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]
Towards Integration of Geographic Information Systems
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Extracting geographic features from the Internet to automatically build detailed regional gazetteers
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Ontology-driven geographic information integration: A survey of current approaches
Computers & Geosciences
An ontological analysis of states: Organizations vs. legal persons
Applied Ontology
Building a global normalized ontology for integrating geographic data sources
Computers & Geosciences
Geovisual evaluation of public participation in decision making: The grapevine
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Grounding ecologies on multiple spaces
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
An ontological analysis of states: Organizations vs. legal persons
Applied Ontology
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Two hundred and sixty-three subjects each gave examples for one of five geographic categories: geographic features, geographic objects, geographic concepts, something geographic, and something that could be portrayed on a map. The frequencies of various responses were significantly different, indicating that the basic ontological terms feature, object, etc., are not interchangeable but carry different meanings when combined with adjectives indicating geographic or mappable. For all of the test phrases involving geographic, responses were predominantly natural features such as mountain, river, lake, ocean, hill. Artificial geographic features such as town and city were listed hardly at all for geographic categories, an outcome that contrasts sharply with the disciplinary self-understanding of academic geography. However, geographic artifacts and fiat objects, such as roads, cities, boundaries, countries, and states, were frequently listed by the subjects responding to the phrase something that could be portrayed on a map. In this paper, we present the results of these experiments in visual form, and provide interpretations and implications for further research.