A wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary study of the way data is collected by governments, business and research organisations. Most GIS handle this data spatially and have difficulty with the socio-economic aspect. The definitive sourcebook.

The amount of data collected by governments, business and research organisations has increased markedly in recent years. Geographic Information Systems have been more widely used than ever before for the storage and analysis of this information. Most GIS handle this data spatially rather than temporally, and have difficulty with the management of socio-economic time series which relate to changing spatial units. Accordingly, this book covers the issues ranging from a formal model to differentiate aspects of spatio-temporal data, through philosophical and fundamental reconsideration of time and space, to the development of practical solutions to the problem. This book draws together an interdisciplinary group of scientists in the field of geography, computing, surveying and philosophy. It presents the definitive sourcebook on temporal GIS as applied to socioeconomic units. Key Features: * The definitive sourcebook on temporal GIS and socio-economic units * A wide-ranging interdisciplinary study * Sets the issues in an international context