A mismatch between largely absolute Newtonian models of space in GIScience and the relational spaces of critical human geography has contributed to mutual disinterest between the fields. Critical GIS has offered an intellectual critique of GIScience without substantially altering how particular key geographical concepts are expressed in data structures. Although keystone ideas in GIScience such as Tobler's “First Law” and the modifiable areal unit problem speak to enduring concerns of human geography, they have drawn little interest from that field. Here, we suggest one way to reformulate the computational approach to the region for relational space, so that regions emerge not through proximity in an absolute space or similarities in intensive properties, but according to their similarities in relations. We show how this might operate theoretically and empirically, working through three illustrative examples. Our approach gestures toward reformulating key terms in GIScience like distance, proximity, networks, and spatial building blocks such as the polygon. Re‐engaging the challenges of representing geographical concepts computationally can yield new kinds of GIS and GIScience resonant with theoretical ideas in human geography, and also lead to critical human geographic practices less antagonistic to computation.

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重新构想关系空间的GIScience。

地理科学领域中基本上是绝对的牛顿空间模型与关键的人文地理之间的关系空间不匹配，这导致了各个领域之间的互不关心。关键GIS在没有实质性改变数据结构中特定关键地理概念的表达方式的情况下，对GIS科学提出了理性的批判。尽管地理科学的基石思想，如托伯勒的“第一定律”和可修改的面积单位问题，引起了人们对人类地理学的持久关注，但这些思想并没有引起人们的兴趣。在这里，我们建议一种重新构造关系空间区域的计算方法的方法，以使区域不是通过绝对空间中的邻近区域或密集属性的相似性出现的，而是根据关系的相似性出现的。通过三个示例，我们展示了它在理论和经验上的运作方式。我们的方法旨在重新构造GIS科学中的关键术语，例如距离，邻近度，网络和空间构建块（例如多边形）。重新参与以计算方式表示地理概念的挑战，可以产生与人文地理学的理论思想相呼应的新型GIS和GIS科学，并且还可以使关键的人文地理实践减少与计算的对立。