When I was writing a book about the police in East London, thirty years ago, it was noticeable that for most of them decency was a geographic concept.
As a neutral geographic concept, "East Asia", superficially, indicates some certain commonality.
Neighbor is not a geographic concept.
The answer must in part come from renewing our commitment to American identity as not just a geographic concept, but also as a civic culture of belonging, a nation of many toiling for a common destiny.
The idea that the Nile waters connect with the sea is an old one, tracing back to the geographic concepts of Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 520 bce).
"Exchanges aren't geographic concepts any more, they're legal concepts," says Benn Steil, an exchange expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.Regulatory arbitrage between exchanges has occurred since at least the 1990s, Mr Steil notes, when the CFTC allowed Deutsche Terminbörse (a precursor of Eurex, a German-Swiss derivatives exchange) to put electronic trading terminals in America.
Such fuzziness is an inherent property of geographic concepts as has been pointed out by Bennet [41].
Both languages are used to model the geo-ontology designed for supporting web retrieval of geographic concepts.
Six major research areas are identified and discussed, including semantic interoperability, digital gazetteers, geographic information retrieval, geospatial Semantic Web, place semantics, and cognitive geographic concepts.
Accordingly, studies on geospatial semantics usually focus on understanding the meaning of geographic entities as well as their counterparts in the cognitive and digital world, such as cognitive geographic concepts and digital gazetteers.
The basic idea behind geographic networking is that nodes can be addressed using geographic concepts such as locations and areas, and routing decisions can be based on inter-node distance, relative movement, etc. Depending on the destination type, several geo-routing schemes may be used.
