Indigenous knowledge of place is not well‐served by today's digital geospatial technologies, such as spatial data, maps, spatial databases, and GIS. This paper aims to identify and explore new connections between Indigenous knowledge of place and digital geospatial technologies. Our analysis is structured around three key gaps in past work: (a) the overrepresentation of digital data about space, rather than knowledge of place; (b) a lack of facility to differentiate access to knowledge and enable Indigenous data sovereignty; (c) a lack of facility to support and sustain relationships between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The paper further identifies and explores recent research topics in the field of geographic information science (GI science) with relevance to addressing these gaps. This includes identifying new serendipitous synergies with previously unconnected research areas, such as research into location privacy, uncertainty, qualitative spatial reasoning, or distributed spatial computing. The conclusions acknowledge that our retrospective approach is unlikely to lead to radical reformulation of geospatial technologies. Nevertheless, we argue that identifying technological opportunities could offer a pragmatic pathway to more rapidly bootstrap new approaches, beyond simply technological “fixes.”

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缩小地理空间差距：有关空间和本土知识的数据

当今的数字地理空间技术（例如空间数据，地图，空间数据库和GIS）不能很好地保护地方的土著知识。本文旨在确定和探索土著的地方知识与数字地理空间技术之间的新联系。我们的分析是围绕过去工作中的三个主要空白进行的：（a）关于空间而不是位置知识的数字数据的过多表示；（b）缺乏区分知识获取和实现土著数据主权的便利；（c）缺乏支持和维持土著人民与非土著人民之间关系的设施。本文进一步确定并探索了与解决这些差距相关的地理信息科学（GI科学）领域的最新研究主题。这包括确定与先前未连接的研究领域的新的偶然协同作用，例如对位置隐私，不确定性，定性空间推理或分布式空间计算的研究。结论认为，我们的回顾性方法不太可能导致对地理空间技术的彻底重新制定。但是，我们认为，发现技术机会可能会提供一种务实的途径，以超越简单的技术“解决方案”更快速地引导新方法。