The scientific articles published in this volume cover a wide diversity of GIScience related themes, including, spatio-temporal data modelling and visualisation, spatial data infrastructures, geo web services and geo semantic web, modelling and management of uncertainty, spatio-temporal data quality and metadata, mobility of persons, objects and systems, transports and flows, spatial analysis, geostatistics, and geo information retrieval, modelling and spatial analysis of urban dynamics, urban GIS, GIS and spatial analysis for global change modelling, impact on space, and geographic information science, links with other disciplines and people.