Ontology is a significant research theme in GIScience. While some researchers believe that
the progress in GIScience is being directed through an engagement with the concept of …

A method is proposed to derive ontologies of geographical domains from natural language
texts that describe human activities. Through its textual grounding, the method addresses …

Integration of geographic information has increased in importance because of new
possibilities arising from the interconnected world and the increasing availability of …

Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic,
subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target …

As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of
research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature of geographic information. This …

Este artigo faz uma reflexão a respeito da importância da geografia para a pesquisa em
saúde coletiva no Brasil. Por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica narrativa, o autor descreve …

В работе рассматривается история развития географической информатики как
объединённой области, которая охватывает теорию географических информационных …

Human interactions with geographical information are contextualized by problem-solving
activities which endow meaning to geospatial data and processing. However, existing …

Interoperability is a crucial problem for geographic information systems. The transfer of data
and models between different systems requires the ability to set up a correspondence …

The current web is rich in geographically referenced data. Mining, retrieving and sharing
these data raises the need for rich geographical place name resources that record spatial …