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A view on the GIS crisis in geography
About the English Geographer Stan Openshaw
Dr. Omar Abdullah Ismaeel Alqassab
University of Mosul / College of Education for Humanities /
Geography Department,
Omar.a.ismaeel@uomosul.edu.iqmail: -E
Keywords: GIS, Geography
GKS
Abstract
Since the early 1990s, GIS has been criticized by non-computer
geographers at the level of global geographical literature for many
conceptual arguments. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ", which
served as an agenda for scaling geographical information systems (GIS) in
order not to be introduced into the geographical system, English
geographical essay Peter Taylor, published in the English geopolitical
journal GKS 1990, is the reason why criticism was later published on the
pages of scientific journals. This led English geographer Stan Openshaw
to write an article in the English journal Planning and Environment entitled
" A view on the GIS crisis in geography ", 1991, to refute the alleged
criticism as a natural reaction from the GIS community.
Although these criticisms were eroded globally with the beginning
of the third millennium as a result of the maturity of geographical
assimilation of the importance of GIS in the geographical system However,
a number of Arab geographers continue to emulate these criticisms on the
sole pretext that these systems are merely a means of not constituting a
broad line of geographical research, This prompted the translator to
translate Openshaw's essay as a contribution to identifying the other aspect
of contemporary geographical thought about the centrality of GIS in the
field of geography.
Political
Geography Quarterly Peter Taylor
"GKS
Michael Goodchild
Openshaw Stan
Quantitative GeographerRevenge of
Positivism Approach
Humpty-Dumpty
Space-Time data Model
GIS
Toolbox
.
Technical Cripples
Computer FreaksSpatial Analyzers
Technophobia
Flexible Specialization
Post-Fordism
Bristol
Neural Network
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial-Knowledge
Approaches
Cybernetic Thinking
Research Methodologies
Gigantic Layers Overlay
Attractive
Aura
Subject Matter
Approach Used
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Space -
Time Data Cube
Research Paradigm
Process Modeling
Spatial Decision
Support Systems
Positivism
GGIS
.
Stan Openshaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Openshaw
Peter j. Taylor, GKS, Political Geography Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1990, p.p. 211
– 212.
M.F. Goodchild, Just the facts, Political Geography Quarterly Vol. 10, No.4, 1991,
p.p. 335–37.