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This paper defines the notion and concepts of Naive Geography, the field of study that is concerned with formal models of the common-sense geographic world. Naive Geography is the body of knowledge that people have about the surrounding geographic world. Naive Geography is envisioned to comprise a set of theories that provide the basis for designing future Geographic Information Systems that follow human intuition and are, therefore, easily accessible to a large range of users.

This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) under grant number SBE-8810917. Max Egenhofer's work is further supported by NSF grant IRI-9309230, and grants from Intergraph Corporation, Space Imaging Inc., Environmental Systems Research Institute, and the Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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  1. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine, 04469-5711, Orono, ME, USA

    Max J. Egenhofer

  2. Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 04469-5711, Orono, ME, USA

    Max J. Egenhofer

  3. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14261-0023, Buffalo, NY, USA

    David M. Mark

  4. Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14261-0023, Buffalo, NY, USA

    David M. Mark

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Egenhofer, M.J., Mark, D.M. (1995). Naive Geography. 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_1

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