ABSTRACT

A long-standing question in GIScience is whether geographic information systems (GIS) facilitates an adequate quantifiable representation of the concept of place. Considering the difficulties of quantifying elusive concepts related to place, several researchers focus on more tangible dimensions of the human understanding of place. The most common approaches are semantic enrichment of spatial information and holistic conceptualization of the notion of place. However, these approaches give emphasis on either space or human meaning, or they mainly exist as concepts without practically proven usable artifacts. A partial answer to this problem was proposed by the function-based model that treats place as functional space. This paper focuses primarily on the level of composition, describing and formalizing it as a rule-based framework with the following objectives: (a) contribute to the formalization efforts of the notion of place and its integration within GIS and (b) maintain tangible properties intertwined with the human understanding of place. The operationalization potential of the proposed framework is illustrated with an example of identifying the shopping areas in an urban region. The results show that the proposed model is able to capture all shopping malls as well as other areas that are not explicitly labeled as such but still function similarly to a shopping mall.

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GIS 科学中一个长期存在的问题是地理信息系统 (GIS) 是否有助于对地点概念进行充分的量化表示。考虑到量化与地点相关的难以捉摸的概念的困难，一些研究人员将重点放在人类对地点理解的更具体的维度上。最常见的方法是空间信息的语义丰富和地点概念的整体概念化。然而，这些方法要么强调空间意义，要么强调人类意义，或者它们主要作为概念存在，而没有实际证明可用的工件。基于功能的模型提出了这个问题的部分答案，该模型将地点视为功能空间。本文主要关注组成层面，将其描述为基于规则的框架并将其形式化，其目标如下：(a) 促进地点概念的形式化工作及其在 GIS 中的集成；(b) 维护有形财产与人类对地方的理解交织在一起。通过识别城市地区购物区的示例说明了所提出框架的可操作潜力。结果表明，所提出的模型能够捕获所有购物中心以及未明确标记但仍具有与购物中心类似功能的其他区域。