The recent availability of user-generated geographic datasets allowing gaining novel insights into otherwise hardly observable societal phenomena. Geosocial media forms one important source of user-generated information, which partly describes the everyday lives of people. The analysis of these kinds of data, people , requires new approaches. Geosocial media data—like those extracted from Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, and others—differ from established sources in that they are inherently platial in nature. People provide their own subjective opinion or perceptions, and taken together The digital social imagination of places. Crisp and the purpose geographic data primitives like points, lines or polygons are not the the preferable units for analysing these kinds of information.Yetial geological approaches yet are needed needed to fully exploit the potential of geosocial media and related data. Yet, while human geographers and social scientists have been theorizing on the concept of place since a long time, and despite of invocations by leading GIScience researchers, we are Parts lack, this lack has been due to the insufficient availability of platial data, but the appearance of geosocial media might change this Condition. It is therefore time to rethink our geographical analysis strategies with a focus on "place" instead of "space".While human geographers and social scientists have been theorizing on the concept of place since a long time, and despite of invocations by leading GIScience researchers, we are still lacking a universal theory on the formalization of places and how to make them available to quantitative and other GIS-related analysis strategies. Partly, this lack has been due to the lack availability of platial data, but the appearance of geosocial media might change this condition. It is therefore time to rethink our geographical analysis strategies with a focus on "place" instead Of "space".While human geographers and social scientists have been theorizing on the concept of place since a long time, and despite of invocations by leading GIScience researchers, we are still lacking a universal theory on the formalization of places and how to make them available to quantitative and other GIS-related analysis strategies. Partly, this lack has been due to the lack availability of platial data, but the appearance of geosocial media might change this condition. It is therefore time to rethink our geographical analysis strategies with a focus on "place" instead Of "space".We are still lacking a universal theory on the formalization of places and how to make them available to quantitative and other GIS-related analysis strategies. Partly, this lack has been due to the insufficient availability of platial data, but the appearance of geosocial media Change this condition. It is therefore time to rethink our geographical analysis strategies with a focus on "place" instead of "space".We are still lacking a universal theory on the formalization of places and how to make them available to quantitative and other GIS-related analysis strategies. Partly, this lack has been due to the insufficient availability of platial data, but the appearance of geosocial media Change this condition. It is therefore time to rethink our geographical analysis strategies with a focus on "place" instead of "space".