The Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS) is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality, original research articles in spatial information science. The journal aims to publish research spanning the theoretical foundations of spatial and geographical information science, through computation with geospatial information, to technologies for geographical information use. [More about JOSIS...]

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Research Articles

Grain levels in English path curvature descriptions and accompanying iconic gestures PDF
Emile van der Zee, Urpo Nikanne, Uta Sassenberg
Linguistic spatial classifications of event domains in narratives of crime PDF
Blake Stephen Howald
Exploring place through user-generated content: using Flickr to describe city cores PDF
Livia Hollenstein, Ross Purves
A framework to improve the cartographic quality PDF
Lars Harrie, Sébastien Mustière, Hanna Stigmar
This is the Tricky Part: When Directions Become Difficult PDF
Stephen Hirtle, Kai-Florian Richter, Samvith Srinivas, Robert Firth
Categorization of Rivers for Map Generalization Using Geocoded Articles of a Knowledge Repository PDF
Tobias Dahinden, Monika Sester
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