Spatial information theory

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This comprehensive work explores various aspects of cultural studies, semantics, spatial reasoning, and navigation. It begins with progress on Yindjibarndi ethnophysiography and examines cultural impacts on location judgments in Eastern China. The study highlights cross-cultural similarities in topological reasoning and maritime representations in ancient Greece. In semantics, it delves into the transition from top-level to domain ontologies, using ecosystem classifications as a case study, and investigates the semantic categories that shape the meaning of 'place' and spatial semantics in different contexts. The evaluation of semantic similarity measures for natural language spatial relations and affordance-based similarity measurements for entity types are also discussed. The work further addresses mapping and representation, detailing essential features of street networks, spatial information extraction for cognitive mapping with mobile robots, and bio-inspired perspectives on spatial mapping. It examines perception and cognition, including the degradation of spatial knowledge when using automatic navigation systems and various methods for assessing landscape perception. In reasoning and algorithms, it covers spatial semantic integrity constraints and geospatial cluster tessellation. Finally, it discusses navigation and landmarks, focusing on linguistic and nonlinguistic turn direction concepts, the handling of differen