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Arnold Bregt 1, Lucas Grus, Decki Rahadian Firdiansyah, Watse Castelein

Theme: Society, Space and Decision

Example: Spatial ThinkingBackground

Spatial thinking is reasoning about problems using spatial concepts and tools for support. It is an important but undervalued human“Intelligence”. One of our Objectives: “To developmethods for testing spatial thinking skills”

Methodology

Steps:1) Identify key spatial thinking concepts2) Formulate levels for each concept3) Develop spatial thinking test4) Evaluate test

Application Wageningen, Den Haag, Twente MSc’s

Results

Conclusion

The test seems to be a good indicator for the evaluation of spatial thinking skills in “ geographical space”, but more research is needed.

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1 Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected]

Examples of Research in “Spatial Data infrastructures” and “Society, Space and

Decision” Theme: Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI)

Example: Collaboration within SDI

Background

Collaboration is generally considered asa key factor for the success of an SDI. Due to its complexity, not a lot research has been done on this aspect. We try to answer the “question: “Does more Collaboration leads to better SDIs”?

Methodology

Steps:1) Formulate collaboration model2) Determine level of collaboration SDI’s3) Determine development status of SDI’s4) Relate level of collaboration and development status

Application for EU member states

Results

Conclusion

There seems to be a positive correlation between collaboration and development status of SDI. (only up to a certain level)

Arnold Bregt

Development ( “state of play” 2010)

Collaboration model

Relation Collaboration-Development

Primitive Simple Difficult/Complicated ComplexIdentity (map primitives) Class/Group Coordinate Spatial reasoningMagnitude Boundary Direction (orientation) Map projectionLocation Scale Angle Overlay

Spatio-temporal Profile Spatial association Representation

Spatial thinking concepts

Example test question

Test results