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Tobler's First Law of Geography

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  1. [standards, geography] A formulation of the concept of spatial autocorrelation by the American-Swiss geographer and cartographer Waldo Rudolph Tobler (1930 – 2018), which states "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."

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