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Australian Geographers and Geographical Information Science
Author(s) -
LEES BRIAN
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
geographical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.695
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-5871
pISSN - 1745-5863
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00777.x
Subject(s) - geography , discipline , geographic information system , historical geography , regional science , human geography , sociology , social science , cartography , economic geography
G eographical I nformation S cience ( GIS cience) has become an important sub‐discipline for N orth A merican geographers but in A ustralia few geographers are engaged in this ‘research in GIS ’ area. A ustralian geographers seem more concerned with ‘research using GIS ’ which has become absorbed into the geographical tradition of thinking and communicating with diagrams, images, and maps. The breakdown of disciplinary boundaries in A ustralia makes it difficult to be sure, but most of those engaged in GIS cience in A ustralia seem to identify with disciplines other than geography.