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A Case for Geographic Masses
2019
Conference On Spatial Information Theory
Geographic masses, the stuff we deal with that cannot be categorized as geographic objects, comprise a crucial but largely unrecognized component of the core ontology of geographic information. Although masses have been rarely acknowledged in GIScience, they appear in geographic discourse just as often as objects. A concise but consistent formal definition of a geographic mass particular, which distinguishes a mass from an object, can be applied to any endurant phenomena, enabling a richer
doi:10.4230/lipics.cosit.2019.14
dblp:conf/cosit/Plewe19
fatcat:r5pou332djhpvmqhwleyzpmhra