Discussion questions
Chapter 7 Time and Dynamics
It’s about time…
Have the cartographic origins of GIS (and by extension giscience) doomed it to struggling to adequately handle time and change?
Consider here what the possibilities might have been for a different GIS origin story. How would GIS be different if it had emerged after cinema or immersive video games?
Are maps (and by extension GIS) truly static? In what ways do maps and GIS differ from this perspective?
What distinguishes contemporary approaches to ‘place’ from Hartshorne’s regional geography?
In the text I am (perhaps overly) kind to Hartshorne. But then I think many others have been overly unkind to him. Unfortunately he does go on a bit (OK… a lot) so it’s perhaps easier to ignore him that take him eriously.1
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References
Hartshorne R. 1939. The nature of geography: A critical survey of current thought in the light of the past. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 39(3/4), 173–658.↩︎