Cartography and GIS: Facilitating collaboration I
Cartography and GIS: Facilitating collaboration I
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制图学和 GIS：促进协作 I
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1999
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A. Maceachren
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A. Maceachren
地图和地理信息系统(GISystems)都将空间关系编码为结构化的形式表示。这些表述使人们能够共享对地理现象及其相互依存关系的理解。这种正式的编码使得地图和地理信息系统本质上非常适合于促进人类参与者之间关于地理尺度环境的思考和决策的协作。最近在地理信息科学(GIScience)和更广泛的信息技术方面的概念和技术发展表明，地图和地理信息系统在包括城市规划、资源管理、科学查询和教育在内的一系列环境中作为协作的调解人的作用即将大幅增加(例如，见NCGIA Initiative 17关于协作空间决策的专家报告，Densham等人(1995年)和关于计算机支持的协作工作的迅速扩大的文献--例如(Prate等人，1997，Shum等人，1997))。
Maps and geographic information systems (GISystems) both encode spatial relationships in structured formal representations. These representations enable shared understanding of geographic phenomena and their interdependencies. This formal encoding makes maps and GIS well suited inherently to facilitating collaboration among human participants in thinking and decision making about the geographic scale environment. Recent conceptual and technical developments in geographic information science (GIScience), and in information technology more generally, suggest we are on the cusp of a substantial increase in the role of maps and GISystems as mediators of collaboration – in a range of contexts that include urban planning, resource management, scientific inquiry, and education (see, for example, the NCGIA Initiative 17 Specialist Report on collaborative spatial decision making, Densham, et al, (1995) and the rapidly expanding literature on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) -e.g., (Prates et al., 1997, Shum et al., 1997).