Rui,
Send your most recent note (below) to Wikipedia and see what they recommend
about adding to or amending the current entry. Probably, few of us reading
this list will remember this controversy once your emails end. But if you
make changes to the Wikipedia entry, they'll be there for easy reference by
us when needed and by others who aren't party to this list.
Bob
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On 2/16/06 2:19 AM, "Rui Carvalho" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Wikipidea entries for space syntax are extremely odd:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_network
>
> This is highly biased and needs correction. Spatial networks include
> transportation networks (roads, airline links, rail, etc.), drainage
> networks, river networks, land parcels, and even the network of internet
> routers -not just "urban or building space".
>
> See, e.g. the Wikipidea entry for geostatistics which mentions spatial
> networks:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostatistics
>
> And there is no proved relationship between the "social usage of space"
> (whatever that may be) and these networks.
>
> The same is true for the entry on 'spatial network analysis software'
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_network_analysis_software
>
> Spatial analysis is a broader field than space syntax. It is nonsense to
> claim otherwise.
>
> No one is asking space syntax to remove their Wikipidea entries, BUT it's
> about time for people to realize that these claims are getting too odd.
>
> Thank you
> Rui
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Alasdair Turner
>> Sent: 27 January 2006 14:14
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [SPACESYNTAX] Spatial networks
>>
>> It strikes me that the two are talking about different things: the
>> Wikipedia article seems to define "spatial networks" as networks of
>> "spatial elements", whilst the Boccaletti et al paper appears to define
>> "spatial networks" as being those which are spatially-located.
>>
>> I think, like you, I would tend to assume the latter rather than the
>> former if someone said "spatial network" to me. However, I can also
>> understand the Wikipedia definition: as "social networks" are networks
>> of people, "spatial networks" might be networks of spaces.
>>
>> I suppose the thing to do is to edit the Wikipedia article!
>>
>> --
>> Alasdair Turner
>> Course Director
>> MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation
>> Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
>> UCL Gower Street LONDON WC1E 6BT
>>
>> http://www.aac.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/
>
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