First law of geography

The First Law of Geography was formulated by the American - Swiss geographer Waldo Tobler . It says that “everything is related to everything, but closer things are stronger than more distant things”.

"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."

- Waldo Tobler

The concept was first presented in 1969 during a meeting of the International Geographical Union , after which it was published in 1970. Among other things, it is used in geostatistics for interpolation methods such as inverse distance weighting and kriging .

Individual evidence

^ WR Tobler: A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region . In: Clark University (Ed.): Economic Geography, Vol. 46, Supplement: Proceedings. International Geographical Union. Commission on Quantitative Methods . tape 46 , June 1970, p. 234-240 .
^ KK Kemp: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science . Ed .: SAGE. 2008, p. 146-147 .

[1] WR Tobler: A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region . In: Clark University (Ed.): Economic Geography, Vol. 46, Supplement: Proceedings. International Geographical Union. Commission on Quantitative Methods . tape 46 , June 1970, p. 234-240 .

[2] KK Kemp: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science . Ed .: SAGE. 2008, p. 146-147 .