It makes for a fun thought experiment to think what a geographic knowledge system might look like, in the sense of richly blending semantic web technologies with geographic information technologies, or better still, knowledge models with spatial data models, which might give us spatial knowledge models. Take any of your GIScience topics, and convert the I for Information to K for Knowledge to get Exploratory Spatial Knowledge Analysis and Spatial Knowledgebases or extend other GIScience topics to get Spatial Knowledge Analysis, Visualising Geographic Knowledge, Semantic Cartography, Geospatial Knowledge Mining ....

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