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Tobler's first law of geography  

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  • Tobler's first law of geography (TFL) refers to the statement made by Waldo Tobler in an article published in 1970: “Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.” Embedded in TFL are two interwoven theses: the pervasive interrelatedness among all things and how they vary spatially. TFL is also conceptually consistent with the notion of distance decay (also known as the inverse distance effects or distance lapse rate) that geographers developed a long time ago. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Tobler's First Law of Geography]

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