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No. 25 (2021)

So… What is Hydrospatial?

Submitted
October 24, 2022
Published
2021-05-30

Abstract

In the Article “What’s Hydrospatial?” (Hains, 2020a), it was suggested to adopt a new term to distinguish the past analog hydrographic production chain for the present digital hydrographic data centricity, and differentiate from broader terrestrial datasets. Following the publication of this Article as a Note in the International Hydrographic Review, some people including some of the authors of this article reached out to the author of the first Article to express their divergent views with the term Hydrospatial (Hains 2020 ; Jonas 2021 ; Jonas 2020; Ponce 2020 ; Pang & Oei 2020 ; Ponce 2019) and even considered it possibly misleading.

The intent of this second article, “So… What is Hydrospatial?" is to engage a broader community to join the conversation on Hydrospatial and reach out to clarify its definition.