“Spatial” Relating to space. Describes how objects fit together in space, either among the planets or down here on earth. Relating to the position, area, and size of things. Spatial is used to describe things relating to areas.

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“Spatial Association…” “…occurs within a region if the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another feature.” …WHAT?

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Geography is most fundamentally a spatial science. Geographers use maps to display the location of objects and to extract information about places. Early geographers drew maps of Earth’s surface based on exploration and observation. Contemporary GIScience, including remote sensing, GPS, VGI, geo-tagging, and GIS, assist geographers in understanding reasons for observed regularities across Earth. -The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, p. 41