Geographic TERMS and MOdels
GIS https://www.esri.com/en-us/what-is- gis/overview
Regional / idiographic (unique)theories as a tendency to specify, and is typical for the humanities. It describes the effort to understand the meaning of contingent, unique, and often cultural or subjectivephenomena.
Systematic/nomothetic theories described as a tendency to generalize, and is typical for the natural sciences. It describes the effort to derive laws that explain types or categories of objective phenomena, in general
What does this have to do with GIS? One important characteristic of GIS is that it allows a combination of general and specific data Allows for integration of ideographic with nomothetic geography.
Distance Decay
Time-Space Compression
Gravity theory/model