ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some concepts in the literature on temporal GIS. Langran reviews temporal GIS research on the basis of dimensional dominance and concludes that attribute versioning is a hybrid organisation which offers the most adequate approach for GIS applications presenting spatial dominance. Both space- and time-dominant views have influenced research outcomes since the early 1980s. The pioneering work of Torsten Hagerstrand during the 1960s unfolded the Time Geography research that emerged from the Royal University of Lund in Sweden. The continuous line of a space-time path is the relative space-time representation of the lifespan of an entity. It is a descriptive form to reveal the interdependence and relationships between events and changes. In the lifespan of an entity, changes occur in its space-time path describing the evolution of its inner existence, or a mutation of its location in space.
