This editorial presents a special collection of papers addressing the concept of place and its use in geographical information science (GIScience). The concept of place is a topic of increasing interest among GIScience scholars. First attempts to formalise platial information have been made and it is increasingly held that user‐generated data sets in particular are often more platial than spatial in nature. At the same time, and especially when compared to geometric spatial concepts, the concept of place is ambiguous, complex and difficult to capture in formal and analytical terms, suggesting the need for interdisciplinary approaches. This collection presents articles covering a wide range of place‐related aspects, including both conceptual and more applied contributions. In the present editorial we summarise these and comment on their individual contributions, and hope that the readership of Transactions in GIS will find the special collection inspiring and informative.

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一个地方：建模和分析平台表示

这篇社论介绍了一些特别的论文集，涉及场所的概念及其在地理信息科学（GIScience）中的使用。场所的概念是地理科学学者越来越感兴趣的话题。已经进行了形式信息的正式形式的首次尝试，并且越来越多的观点认为，尤其是用户生成的数据集在本质上通常比空间信息更具真实感。同时，尤其是与几何空间概念相比，场所概念是模棱两可，复杂且难以用形式和分析的术语来把握的，这表明需要采用跨学科方法。该集合提供的文章涵盖了与场所相关的广泛方面，包括概念性的和实用性更强的文章。GIS中的交易将发现特别的收藏集具有启发性和信息量。