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During the past twenty years, numerous researchers and papers have discussed inclusion of a hierarchical component to the cognitive representation of spatial knowledge. However, such discussion has occurred without serious consideration of alternative representations. This paper examines the nature of hierarchical representation for spatial representations, in detail, and considers several alternative representational schemes, including ordered trees and semi-lattices. In addition, differences between these representations are demonstrated by mapping two sample datasets onto a variety of representations.
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Hirtle, S.C. (1995). Representational structures for cognitive space: Trees, ordered trees and semi-lattices. In: Frank, A.U., Kuhn, W. (eds) Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS. COSIT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 988. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60392-1_21
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