Everything about The First Law Of Geography totally explained
The
first law of geography according to
Waldo Tobler is "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." [Tobler,1970, p.236]
This observation is embedded in the
gravity model of
trip distribution. It is also related to the
law of demand, in that interactions between places are inversely proportional to the cost of travel between them, which is much like the probability of purchasing a good is inversely proportional to the cost.
It is also related to the ideas of
Isaac Newton's
Law of universal gravitation and is essentially synonymous with the concept of
spatial dependence that forms the foundation of
geostatistics.
TOBLER, W. R. (1970). "A computer movie simulating urban growth in the Detroit region". Economic Geography, 46(2): 234-240.
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