Introduction: Qualitative GIS: forging mixed methods through representations, analytical innovations, and conceptual engagements -- Non-quantitative GIS -- Metadata as a site for imbuing GIS with qualitative information -- Multiple representations, significations, and epistemologies in community-based GIS -- Geographic information technologies, local knowledge, and change -- Grounded visualization and scale: a recursive analysis of community spaces -- Computer-aided qualitative GIS: a software-level integration of qualitative research and GIS -- Into the image and beyond: affective visual geographies ans GIScience -- Towards a geneaology of qualitative GIS -- Conclusion: For qualitative GIS.