Scales of Cybergeography

The transition to a digitally based information technology is having profound effects on the role and significance of spatial scale. Four variations are presented on this theme: the need for new metrics of scale that are appropriate for digital representations of geographic information; the implications of such metrics for the sharing of geographic information through the Internet; the emergence of new scales in the production of geographic information; and arguments for and against the disappearence of spatial structure, and thus scale, in the organization of human activities. The last variation is explored with specific attention to spatial structure in the storage of geographically referenced information.