Content annotations in semantic cultural heritage portals commonly make spatiotemporal references to historical regions and places using names whose meanings are different in different times. For example, historical administrational regions such as countries, municipalities, and cities have been renamed, merged together, split into parts, and annexed or moved to and from other regions. Even if ...

This article summarizes the Special Issue of Cartography and Geomedia. Here, Geomedia presents a view cartography as combination technology, science, art, with focus on development geomedia in geomatic design-based context. Individual considerations are presented according to following topics: efficiency mapping techniques; historical cartographic works geomedial context; pragmatics for cultura...

squares as urban spaces are the arena for people formed by physical proportions and variety offunctions such as religious, commercial, cultural, etc. shohada square as a focal point in mashhad , is one of themain arteries of access to holly shrine of imam reza and makes access to utilities and major axes . according tothe former urban pattern and its position in the traditional context of surro...

Recent climate change has had a major impact on biodiversity and has altered the geographical distribution of vascular plant species. This trend is visible globally; however, more local and regional scale research is needed to improve understanding of the patterns of change and to develop appropriate conservation strategies that can minimise cultural, health, and economic losses at finer scales...

Geographic place names are semantically often highly ambiguous. For example, there are 491 places in Finland sharing the same name ”Isosaari” (great island) that are instances of several geographical classes, such as Island, Forest, Peninsula, Inhabited area, etc. Referencing unambiguously to a particular ”Isosaari”, either when annotating content or during information retrieval, can be quite p...

geomorphologic landforms associated with tourism and development has been considered by many researchers in recent years. geomorphologic landforms which have values and capabilities, considered in context of tourism, known as geomorphosite and are studied in geomorphotourism approach. in this paper, we used landsat satellite imageries, geological and topographic maps, data obtained by field obs...

Historical evolution and cross-cultural differences in spatial abilities are analyzed. Spatial abilities have been found to be significantly associated with the complexity of geographical conditions and survival demands. Although impaired spatial cognition is found in cases of, exclusively or predominantly, right hemisphere pathology, it is proposed that this asymmetry may depend on the degree ...