Six GIScience Ideas That Must Die

Autor(en)
Krzysztof Janowicz, Rui Zhu, Judith Verstegen, Grant McKenzie, Bruno Martins, Ling Cai
Abstrakt

In 2015, John Brockman edited a volume of chapters contributed by leading thinkers from various domains discussing common scientific ideas hindering further scientific progress. While starting with the provocative slogan of This Idea Must Die, the book’s chapters and their authors (for most parts) do not argue that those existing – often foundational scientific theories from various domains – are false, but instead that their widespread, and often unquestioned, utilization has started to hinder the evolution of new theories. Through this work, we would like to foster a similar discussion in our community, by suggesting six ideas in GIScience/geoinformatics that may benefit from retiring to make room for new perspectives. Our suggestions are somewhat controversial, and readers are encouraged to keep an open mind.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Wageningen University and Research Centre, McGill University, Universidade de Lisboa, University of California, Santa Barbara
Journal
AGILE: GIScience series
Band
3
ISSN
2700-8150
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-3-7-2022
Publikationsdatum
2022
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507003 Geoinformatik, 105403 Geoinformatik
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/216c21b2-5f60-4479-bae6-780378068f6c