Gaming and Geospatial Information

Dear colleagues,

Online games, serious games, geogames based on geospatial technologies, and visualization have emerged as a novel form of communication with users/players. They may enhance their ability to think spatially, enable novel principles, and designs of spatial game-based simulations and models that include game mechanics, playfulness, and even enjoyment in their concepts. Such games can be offered on mobile devices as location-based games and are often called geogames. They may involve technologies and concepts such as virtual- and augmented realities, mixed-realities, or other cutting-edge implementations. Space and places with location-based visualizations play an important role in geogames; the visualizations can range from very abstract and imaginary to very specific, based on real-world examples.  

This Special Issue is dedicated to gaming with geographic information. It brings together geographers, GIS professionals, game designers, data scientists, and urban designers and planners. We invite publications that focus on the concepts, fundamental principles of game-play and design, user experience with games based on geographic information technologies, and a variety of application areas in which these games have been implemented including learning, emergency management, urban planning, health, and others.

Assist. Prof. Alenka Poplin
Assoc. Prof. Dr. David I. Schwartz
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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