Platial or Locational Data? Toward the Characterization of Social Location Sharing

Operationalizing places in GIScience: A review

“…Papers that fell within the analysis category were characterized by having their main focus on switching the traditional spatial analysis to platial analysis, although some of them included building a place‐based model or framework as well (e.g., Gao et al., 2013; Lai, Lansley, Haworth, & Cheng, 2020). Articles whose objectives were categorized as data had as their main goals to propose new data models, classifications, or structures for specific scenarios (e.g., Plewe, 2019; Quesnot & Roche, 2015). Again, several papers did in fact fall into more than one category, but our classification considered the research focus according to the main objectives stated by the authors.…”

“…Creating entity‐relationship diagrams, conceptual frameworks, or models that are visually represented by different elements that characterize or make up the construct of place was one of the main ways in which researchers structured their concepts. In this case some papers only built visual representations of their frameworks without providing formalized descriptions (Papadakis, Baryannis, & Blaschke, 2018; Quesnot & Roche, 2015). Other papers built intricate models of place with both pictorial representations and well‐developed statements to explain their model, either context dependent or independent (Papadakis, Petutschnig, & Blaschke, 2018; Plewe, 2019).…”

Geographic information science II

“…Place is usually and essentially a concept associated with the area of geographic sciences (Quesnot and Roche, 2015). From this geographical perspective, the word 'place' is commonly used to designate 'a particular position, point, or area in space; a location'.…”

“…Clerc (2004) proposes another way of understanding place. He argues that the definition of place depends on whether one adopts the perspective of spatial analysis -place is an objective point defined by its coordinates, and in interaction with other places -or the perspectives of human geography that takes into account the subject and its experience of places (Quesnot and Roche, 2015). Goodchild (2011) follows a very close dichotomy with regard to GISciences, framing two main approaches to defining the concept of place.…”

Do geospatial ontologies perpetuate Indigenous assimilation?

“…After a brief downturn, ontologies saw a resurgence with increases in available information on the web and aspirations of connecting massive amounts of data on the web with best practices to achieve goals like linked data (Bizer et al, 2009). This re-emergence of ontologies was due in part to the creation of platial science, which moves away from authoritative data and seeks to integrate crowdsourced and social media data (Quesnot and Roche, 2015). This represents a more bottom-up and yet computational approach to ontologies.…”