What does KE stand for?

They present 34 chapters organized into seven sections that focus on recent trends and issues of geographic data acquisition and distribution, enduring database issues and trends, challenges concerning the visualization of spatial data, the increasingly important task of knowledge elicitation, spatial analysis, broad issues that influence the development and impacts of geographic information technologies such as institutional partnering and public participation, and future trends and challenges.

Tools to support knowledge elicitation are used more and more in situations where employees or students collaborate using the computer.

When used as a knowledge elicitation tool, wherein students create their own maps to demonstrate their knowledge of a domain, showing their knowledge of examples of a concept provides a more elaborated and complete representatio n of the students' knowledge of that domain.