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| ==== Outline ==== | ==== Outline ==== | ||
| - | The course is organized on the following main topics: | + | The course is organised on the following main topics: |
| - What is Geoinformatics? General definitions. Linking computer representations to geographical data. General examples. | - What is Geoinformatics? General definitions. Linking computer representations to geographical data. General examples. | ||
| - Geometries for representing the social world: points, lines and polygons. Topological relations. | - Geometries for representing the social world: points, lines and polygons. Topological relations. | ||
| - Representing the world: putting the Earth into a computer. Location as a key property of the world. | - Representing the world: putting the Earth into a computer. Location as a key property of the world. | ||
| - | - Representing the social world, part I: generation geographical reality with our laws and social arrangements. The role of boundaries. Creating (fiat) objects. The need for maintaining identity of objects of the social world. | + | - Representing the social world: generation geographical reality with our laws and social arrangements. The role of boundaries. Creating (fiat) objects. The need for maintaining identity of objects of the social world. |
| - Describing the natural world, part I: assigning names, identities and (bona fide) boundaries to places and features of the world and to living beings. The inherent ambiguity of "places". | - Describing the natural world, part I: assigning names, identities and (bona fide) boundaries to places and features of the world and to living beings. The inherent ambiguity of "places". | ||
| - Describing the natural world, part 2: measuring properties of the world as continuous distributions. Fields as a general data type for measuring the world. | - Describing the natural world, part 2: measuring properties of the world as continuous distributions. Fields as a general data type for measuring the world. | ||
| - | - Representing the social world, part 2: creating continuous representations from object data. Data structures for continuous representations of data. | ||
| - Describing change: the concepts of trajectories, moving objects, and events. | - Describing change: the concepts of trajectories, moving objects, and events. | ||
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