Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to
indigenous geographical knowledge as well as toofficial'spatial data. By incorporating …

The" GIS and Society" literature has raised a number of critical issues concerning the
political economy and epistemology of geographical information systems (GIS) and the …

Destacando as relações entre os Estados nacionais e a produção dos mapas, Barbara
Lynch1 afirma que, como “discurso político a serviço do Estado”, os mapas foram …

This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-
making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography …

Despite considerable progress in recent geographic information systems (GIS) research
(especially on public-participation GIS), the critical discourse on GIS in the 1990s does not …

Geographic information systems (GIS) and geographic information technologies (GIT) are
increasingly employed in research and development projects that incorporate community …

New interactive web services are dramatically altering the way in which ordinary citizens can
create digital spatial data and maps, individually and collectively, to produce new forms of …

This book explores the interface between geography, ethics and morality. It considers
questions that have haunted the past, are subjects of controversy in the present, and which …

In the mid‐1990s, several critical texts raised concerns about the social, political, and
epistemological implications of GIS. Subsequent responses to these critiques have …

GIS eased into geography without much discord until the 1990s, when a flurry of
commentaries about the relative merits of GIS made their way into a number of geographic …