Tobler's first law of geography

'Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things': Waldo Tobler's 1970 principle, which underlies spatial interpolation and much of geographic reasoning.

proposed by

• A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region writing 1970 [src]

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.2307/143141
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3436744