Geographic Information Systems are an essential tool for analyzing and representing quantitative spatial data. Qualitative GIS explains the recent integration of qualitative research with Geographical Information Systems. With a detailed contextualizing introduction, the text is organized in three sections:Representation: examines how researchers are using software techniques to create new types of representations: either 'quantifying qualitative data' or using non-numerical data in GIS to provide texture and context Analysis: discusses the new techniques of analysis that are emerging at the margins between qualitative research and GIS; this in the wider context of a critical review of mixed-methods in geographical research Theory: questions how knowledge is produced, showing how ideas of 'science' and 'truth' inform research, and demonstrates how qualitative GIS can be used to interrogate discussions of power, community and social action Making reference to representation, analysis, and theory throughout, the text shows how to frame questions, collect data, analyze results, and represent findings in a truly integrated way. An important addition to the mixed methods literature, Qualitative GIS will be the standard reference for upper-level students and researchers using qualitative methods and Geographic Information Systems.Qualitative GIS: Forging mixed methods through representations, analytical innovations, and conceptual engagements Sarah Elwood and Meghan Cope Non-quantitative GIS Marianna Pavlovskaya REPRESENTATIONS Metadata as a site for imbuing GIS with qualitative information Nadine Schuurman Sarah Elwood Multiple representations, significations, and epistemologies in community-based GIS Geographic information technologies, local knowledge, and change Jon Corbett and Giacomo Rambaldi ANALYTICAL INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS Grounded Visualization and scale: A recursive analysis of community spaces LaDona Knigge and Meghan Cope A software-level integration of qualitative research and GIS Jin-Kyu Jung: Computer-Aided Qualitative GIS CONCEPTUAL ENGAGEMENTS Affective visual geographies and GIScience Stuart Aitken and Jim Craine Towards a genealogy of qualitative GIS Matthew Wilson For Qualitative GIS Meghan Cope and Sarah Elwood