Spatial Information Science in 2023

Abstract

Since our 10th anniversary issues published in 2020 [1, 2], JOSIS has continued to publish a number of excellent research articles on many of the topics highlighted by our editorial board in their invited papers. These include articles on crowdsourcing [10], place [18, 17, 23, 13, 3], spatial language [5, 15, 24, 19], GeoAI [14], movement analysis [26, 11], urban analysis and wayfinding [16, 21, 7], methods for spatial analysis and uncertainty [22, 25, 6, 20], environmental data and modeling [8, 12, 9], and qualitative spatial reasoning [4]. We are happy to also note that these articles represent research conducted around the world, with authors based in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Lebanon, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition to five research articles, this issue contains two commentaries that revisit thematic questions about the field of GIScience both past and present. The first of these by René Westerholt examines how GIScience is taught in the interdisciplinary contexts and how that affects the identity of the field. The second by Christophe Claramunt and Matthew Dube looks at the state of the field through the lens of the original NCGIA research agenda. As we go forward, it is clear that spatial information science (and GIScience) continues to evolve as both a scientific field as well as in terms of the applications to which it is applied. We take this opportunity to remind all of our readers that JOSIS is run by your researchers for researchers. As a diamond open access journal, your article will be published under a Creative Commons licence, with no fees to either readers or authors. We rely on the community to provide constructive and detailed reviews, and are proud of the quality and diversity of articles we publish.