Arnold Bregt 1 , Lucas Grus, Decki Rahadian Firdiansyah, Watse Castelein Theme: Society, Space and Decision Example: Spatial Thinking Background Spatial thinking is reasoning about problems using spatial concepts and tools for support. It is an important but undervalued human “Intelligence”. One of our Objectives: “To develop methods for testing spatial thinking skills” Methodology Steps: 1) Identify key spatial thinking concepts 2) Formulate levels for each concept 3) Develop spatial thinking test 4) Evaluate test Application Wageningen, Den Haag, Twente MSc’s Results Conclusion The test seems to be a good indicator for the evaluation of spatial thinking skills in “ geographical space”, but more research is needed. 1 Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected] Examples of Research in “Spatial Data infrastructures” and “Society, Space and Decision” Theme: Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) Example: Collaboration within SDI Background Collaboration is generally considered as a key factor for the success of an SDI. Due to its complexity, not a lot research has been done on this aspect. We try to answer the “question: “Does more Collaboration leads to better SDIs”? Methodology Steps: 1) Formulate collaboration model 2) Determine level of collaboration SDI’s 3) Determine development status of SDI’s 4) Relate level of collaboration and development status Application for EU member states Results Conclusion There seems to be a positive correlation between collaboration and development status of SDI. (only up to a certain level) Arnold Bregt Development ( “state of play” 2010) Collaboration model Relation Collaboration- Development Primitive Simple Difficult/ Complicated Complex Identity (map primitives) Class/Group Coordinate Spatial reasoning Magnitude Boundary Direction (orientation) Map projection Location Scale Angle Overlay Spatio-temporal Profile Spatial association Representation Spatial thinking concepts Example test question Test results