Science proceeds by detecting structures embedded in observ… - Waldo R. Tobler

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Science proceeds by detecting structures embedded in observational data. It is no simple matter to separate these general structures from the specific details.

Waldo R. Tobler

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Waldo Rudolph Tobler (16 November 1930 – 20 February 2018) was an American-Swiss geographer and cartographer, regarded as one of the most influential geographers and cartographers of the late 20th century and early 21st century.

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Alternative Names: Waldo Rudolph Tobler • Waldo Tobler

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Philosophically, the phenomenon external to an area of interest affects what goes on in the inside; a sufficiently common occurrence as to warrant being called the second law of geography.

It seems that some basic tasks, common to all cartography, may in the future be largely automated, and that the volume of maps produced in a given time will be increased while the cost is reduced.

I invoke the first law of geography: everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things

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