Donna J. Peuquet

380 Pages Size: 6" x 9"

Hardcover June 2002 ISBN 978-1-57230-773-5 Cat. #0773 Price: $52.00 $44.20 order

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· Introduction to Part I

1. Representation versus Reality

2. Acquiring World Knowledge: The Overall Process

3. Storing World Knowledge: Some Elements of Conceptual Structure

4. Acquiring World Knowledge through Direct Experience

5. From Observation to Understanding

6. Acquiring Geographic Knowledge through Indirect Experience

7. How Spatial Knowledge Is Encoded

II. The Computer as a Tool For Storing and Acquiring Spatial Knowledge

· Introduction to Part II

8. The Computer as Medium

9. Storing Geographic Data

10. A New Perspective for Geographic Database Representation

11. Interacting with Databases

12. Issues for Implementing Advanced Geographic Databases

13. Epilogue: Moving Forward