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geography

vr.tr.geography · INF.KNW

Let an agent treat geography as a discipline with branches, methods and data, and link places, maps and spatial analysis.

Thing Registry Information and virtual systems

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent treat geography as a discipline with branches, methods and data, and link places, maps and spatial analysis.

The science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants and phenomena of the Earth, including physical geography, human geography and methods such as cartography and surveying.

What it is for: Understanding places, environments and spatial patterns.

It can be study and teach it; map and survey; analyse spatial data; inform planning.

Distinguishing features

Spatial perspective on nature and society

Physical and human branches

Relies on maps, surveys and GIS

Bridges natural and social sciences

What it looks like

Maps, atlases, GIS layers, surveys and fieldwork.

How it is recognised

Maps and spatial data

Branches such as hydrographic survey or chorography

Geography departments and societies

Related models

studies - subjects

landform, city, landscape

uses - tools

map

is a kind of - discipline

science

overlaps - fields

ecology and social science

In practice

Families and kinds

physical geography

human geography

cartography and GIS

surveying and hydrography

regional geography

Identifiers

field classification OECD FORD 1.5 and 5.7 research classification

Standards and regulation

ISO 19100 series geographic information standards

INSPIRE Directive for spatial data in Europe

Geographic naming authorities

Failure modes and hazards

Outdated maps

Projection errors

Disputed borders shown without note

Also called

physiographic divisionRetrospective cartographychorographyDili Zhihydrographic surveylake surveyplanetary phenomenachorologyenvironmental geographyIslamic geographydigital geographiesecographytransportation and communication geographygeography of anarchismsystematic geographygeography of EuropeBook of Roads and Kingdomsdeepfake geographymicro geographyhuman geographyevolutionary geographyqueer geographygeography of Kurdistanaerial geographycoastal geographypolar explorationindustrial geographyneogeographyCyber geographyhydrographygeography of Asiamedical geographyMarxist geographygeography and cartographycognitive geographyinternet geographyperception geographygeography of ancient Greeceintegrated geographygeography and topography of 's-Hertogenbosch

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.geography

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Branch Which geography.

Branches differ in methods.

Field

Physical or human.

Branch

The branch.

  1. Which branch of geography is involved? definition
  2. Which neighbouring disciplines? definition

Scale

Local to global.

Scale

Spatial scale.

  1. At what spatial scale is the question? definition
  2. Does the scale change conclusions? boundary
Data Maps and surveys.

Spatial data needs sources and projections.

Sources

Maps and datasets.

Sources

Data sources.

  1. Which maps or datasets are used, from when? provenance
  2. What is their resolution? measurement

Projection

Coordinate systems.

Projection

Coordinate reference.

  1. Which coordinate reference system is used? provenance
  2. What distortion does it introduce? measurement
Analysis Spatial analysis.

Analysis turns data into knowledge.

Methods

GIS and statistics.

Methods

Analytic methods.

  1. Which spatial analysis methods are used? definition
  2. What are their limits? boundary

Interpretation

Findings.

Findings

Interpretation.

  1. What do the results show? definition
  2. Could scale or boundaries mislead? boundary
Sensitivity Borders and names.

Some geographic facts are contested.

Borders

Disputes.

Borders

Disputed borders.

  1. Are any borders or names disputed? boundary
  2. How should that be noted? action

Privacy

Location data.

Privacy

Personal location data.

  1. Does the data reveal personal locations? boundary
  2. How should it be protected? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should branches be separate entries?
  • How should disputed borders be represented neutrally?
  • Which spatial data standards should be linked?
Draft as JSON