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dc.contributor.author | Formosa, Saviour | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sciberras, Elaine | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bonazountas, Marc | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-07T11:03:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-07T11:03:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Formosa, S., Sciberras, E., & Bonazountas, M. (Eds.). (2022). Pathways to spatial cognition : a multi-domain approach SpatialTrain I. Malta: Planning Authority | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789918230945 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/107127 | - |
dc.description.abstract | “Opening a window into the future is not an easy task. Attempting to open one in a generation after the initial launching step might seemed either idealistic, naïve or with hindsight plain driven” (Formosa, 2017, p35). The drive to introduce Spatial Information integration across the Maltese Islands was an ideal, one that brought in technology, methodologies and results. However, as in the classic GIS evolution through the decades pointers on what constitutes a spatial information system were the subject of extensive debate Initially this was driven by the Push – Pull factor where entities using the primitive systems were being pushed by the availability of a mapping system and provision of base maps and hence creating data to fit the system. Initiated in the 1960s through military use, porting the processes to the physical and urban domains in the 1980s and 1990s, further takeup was made in the environmental domains in the 1990s to 2000s and eventually to the social domain in the 2000 to 2010s. Jumping through the decades, the global explosion of GIS and Spatial awareness as well as software, methods and integrative constructs morphed GIS into an availability that made it all possible, particularly through online and web-enabled GIS. This Pull – Push factor caused entities and private organisations to finally break through by creating their own data and then going for the mapping systems that fit their needs, systems that have evolved beyond recognition, both in the proprietary and open-source/open-access arenas. [Excerpt from the Introduction by Prof. Saviour Formosa] | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Planning Authority (Malta) | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Spatial analysis (Statistics) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Climatic changes -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Spatial data infrastructures -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Transportation -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Air -- Pollution -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Well-being -- Social aspects | en_GB |
dc.title | Pathways to spatial cognition : a multi-domain approach SpatialTrain I | en_GB |
dc.type | book | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
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