摘要: New data sources, for example in the form of geotagged image libraries and digitised archives historical text documents, provide us with new opportunities exploring how place is described. Using a framework derived from work human geography information science, we illustrate there more to than names coordinates. Through set case studies explore different aspects seemingly trivial query ‘mountains Alps’ addressing range issues including ambiguity, use vernacular names, ways which concepts such as mountain are used locations by groups, approaches automatically generating macro-maps space time and, finally, techniques allowing regions be characterised compared based on terms describe them. The all these methods combination allows come closer meaningful representation sense within context Geographic Information Science. Howev...