Introduction: What is a self-organizing map? Skupin, Agarwal Applications of Different Self-Organizing Map Variants to Geographical Information Science Problems: Bação, Lobo, Painha Self-organizing maps for exploratory visualization and knowledge discovery in large geospatial datasets: Koua, Kraak Detecting Geographic and Socio-economic Associations in English Dialect Features with Self-Organizing Maps: Thill, Kretzschmar, Casas, Yao Geographic Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Interaction Data with Self-Organizing Maps: Yan, Thill Visualizing Human Movement in Attribute Spac: Skupin Typification using self-organising maps: Sester Climate analysis, modelling, and regional downscaling using self-organising maps: Hewitson Prototyping Broad-Scale Climate and Ecosystem Classes by Means of Neural Maps: Kropp,Schellnhuber Applying Self-Organizing Map Principles toward Automating the Extraction of Roads from Remotely Sensed Imagery: Doucette, Agouris, Stefanidis Epilogue: Goodchild.