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Spatial objects are located in regions of space. In this paper the notions of exact, part, and rough locations are discussed. Exact location is the relation between an object and the region of space it occupies. The notion of part location characterizes the location of a spatial object within a set of regions which form a regional partition of space. It links parts of spatial objects to parts of partition elements. The relationship between rough location, vague defined spatial objects, and indeterminacy of location are discussed. Knowledge about location of spatial objects in physical reality is based on observations and measurement. This paper argues that the observations and measurement of locationin physical reality yiel knowledgeabout rough location rather than knowledge about exact location. The underlying regional partitions are created by the observation and measurement processes.
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Bittner, T. (1999). On Ontology and Epistemology of Rough Location. In: Freksa, C., Mark, D.M. (eds) Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science. COSIT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48384-5_28
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