This issue contains papers selected from the contributions presented at the 1st International Car-tographic Association (ICA) Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling held in Vienna on the8th of July, 2006 (http://www.hig.se/~bjg/ica/workshop/). The theme papers demonstrate partiallyrecent developments in geospatial analysis and modeling for uncovering knowledge for variousapplications. This research has seen intensive growth over the past decade due to application needsand the increasing availability of geospatial information collected from various sources. The chal-lenge for the research is to go beyond the conventional cartographic and geographic (mainly statis-tics-based) methods, and to develop more advanced and robust models for analyzing and mininggeospatial information.