This article presents the Varenius perspective on the societal dimensions of geographical information technologies and the geographical dimensions of information technologies in general, and puts them in the context of the research literature of the last ten years. The central themes examined are: theoretical perspectives on the societal implicationsof geographical information technologies; the...

background: growth of the world population alongside an increasing adoption of cancer-causing behaviors,particularly smoking and various environmental factors. a variety of cancers data in specialgeographic areas can help define medical programs for treatment and screening of high-risk groups.since cancer types has not been reported within districts and neighbourhoods of tehran city so far,this...

objectives: to locate the road emergency stations in fars province based on using spatial multi-criteria decision making (delphi method).    methods: in this study, the criteria affecting the location of road emergency stations have been identified through delphi method and their importance was determined using analytical hierarchical process (ahp). with regard to the importance of the criteria...

These works take place in the geographical information retrieval context. Our purpose is to exploit local cultural heritage document repositories whose content is strongly attached to a territory (i.e. geographical information). Geographical information is composed of a spatial feature, a temporal feature and a theme feature. This paper focuses on temporal feature. We first propose a model for ...

This paper reviews research in geographical cognition that provides part of the theoretical foundation of geographical information science. Freestanding research streams in cognitive science, behavioural geography, and cartography converged in the last decade or so with work on theoretical foundations for geographical information systems to produce a coherent research community that advances ge...

Recent years in geographical information handling have been marked with constant change and innovation. Geographical information systems and enterprizes have continued to gravitate towards distributed models based on open systems technologies. Increasingly, successful geographical information markets are predicated on robust service infrastructures that offer guarantees on performance, availabi...

The increasing popularity of the Internet has led to the development of Web applications, known as Web GIS. A geographic information system (called GIS from now) is a software system that manages geo-referenced information. GIS systems are an automated system used for storing, analysing and manipulating geographical information. Geographical information represents objects and actions where geog...