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Taylor, Peter J.

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“…There is no doubt that current interest in TFL is at least in part due to the growth of GIS and GIScience, and to its importance as an underlying principle of these fields. Taylor (1990) has called GIS the ''positivists' revenge'', but the notion that it represents the last resort of the early geographic quantifiers is hardly consistent with the very broad interest that has developed during the past decade or so in almost all scientific disciplines, in public policy and private corporations, and in society at large.…”

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Statistical Perspectives on Geographic Information Science

Goodchild

2008

Geographical Analysis

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Statistical geometry applies probabilistic methods to geometric forms. In the early days of the quantitative revolution statistical geometry appeared to provide a useful framework for geographic research, but its value appeared to decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Geographic information science (GIScience) addresses the fundamental issues underlying the geographic information technologies, and statistical geometry has proven valuable in a number of respects. Several classical results from statistical geometry are useful in the design of geographic information systems, and in understanding and modeling uncertainty in geographic information, and several statistical principles are observed to be generally applicable to geographic information. Modeling uncertainty in area-class maps has proven particularly difficult, and seven possible models are discussed. Statistical geometry provides an important link between the early work of the quantitative revolution in geography and modern research in GIScience.

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Statistical Perspectives on Geographic Information Science

Goodchild

2008

Geographical Analysis

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“…The distinction is crucial. As Taylor (1990) observes, knowledge production involves synthesizing ideas into integrated systems of thought, whereas information production is characterized by extracting particular facts from a situation and treating them as independent. At the CAPS meetings, police maintain that the maps foster ''a deeper understanding about what the streets really look like.…”

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“…GIS maps present a schema in which humans are cast as interchangeable objects defined by reductive bureaucratic categories, space is reduced to an invariant XY-coordinate system, and connections between the two are locked into formalized relationships that elide political economic transformations and social particularity (Currie et al, 2016;Dalton and Thatcher, 2015;Kirby, 1996b). And on the terrain of public policy, the mere act of geocoding most often designates the coded object as a problem, even if that object is a human (Curry, 1995;Lake, 1993;Taylor, 1990;Yapa, 1998). The commitments of various state apparatuses to track the coordinates of social problems using GIS can thereby cast the geocoded human as one object of technocratic administration among others.…”

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Digitize and punish: Computerized crime mapping and racialized carceral power in Chicago

Jefferson¹

2017

Environ Plan D

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While critical attention has recently turned to racialized police violence in US cities, another quiet development in urban policing is taking place. Hundreds of police departments have begun to wed database software with geographic information systems to represent crime cartographically. Focusing on the Chicago police's digital mapping application, CLEARmap, the article interprets this development from the standpoint of racialized carceral power. It puts critical geographic information systems theory into discussion with critical ethnic studies and builds the case that CLEARmap does not passively ''read'' urban space, but provides ostensibly scientific ways of reading and policing negatively racialized fractions of surplus labor in ways that reproduces, and in some instances extends the tentacles of carceral power. CLEARmap's data structure ensures that negatively racialized fractions of surplus labor, the places they inhabit, and the social problems that afflict them are only representable to state authorities and the public as objects of policing and punishment. CLEARmap is also used at police-community meetings and via the Internet to adapt public perceptions of crime to that of the policing apparatus, and mobilize the public as appendages of police surveillance. By tracing these phenomena, the article casts a heretofore untheorized dimension of the carceral power into sharp relief.

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“…Taylor (1990) describes GIS as a retreat into the realm of naive empiricism wherein isolated facts become more important than geographical knowledge. Similarly, Pickles (1995) writes that GIS technology promotes a nature of reality that is grounded in the analysis of value-neutral observation, based on science as the mirror of reality, and theory as a product of data collection and testing.…”

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Implementing GIS technology in India: some issues of time and space

Sahay

1998

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies

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Editorial comment GKS

Cited by 116 publications

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Statistical Perspectives on Geographic Information Science

Statistical Perspectives on Geographic Information Science

Digitize and punish: Computerized crime mapping and racialized carceral power in Chicago

Implementing GIS technology in India: some issues of time and space

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