The theme for the workshop and this special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with both spatial and temporal components.

Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization and interactive analysis of large data sets representing:

• individual and group movement behaviours, either in physical or virtual spaces
• dynamics of geo-localised sensor data
• spatio-temporal events
• remotely sensed data, multi-scale and multi-temporal
• large high-dimensional data sets in space and time
• streams of spatio-temporal data

• models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics
• knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes
• application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems