GIS and spatial data analysis: Converging perspectives

. This article identifies some of the important developments in GIS and spatial data analysis since the early 1950s. Although GIS and spatial data analysis started out as two more or less separate areas of research and application, they have grown closer together over time. We argue that the two are...

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Published in:Papers in regional science 2004-01, Vol.83 (1), p.363-385
Main Authors: Goodchild, Michael F., Haining, Robert P.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Academic discipline
C31
Data analysis
Geographic information science
Geographic information systems
Geographical information systems
Geography
Geostatistics
GIS
Hypotheses
Mining industry
point processes
Regional economics
Regional studies
Regions
Social sciences
Space economics
Spatial analysis
Spatial data
spatial data analysis
spatial modelling
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Summary:. This article identifies some of the important developments in GIS and spatial data analysis since the early 1950s. Although GIS and spatial data analysis started out as two more or less separate areas of research and application, they have grown closer together over time. We argue that the two areas meet in the field of geographic information science, with each supporting and adding value to the other. The article starts off providing a critical retrospective of developments over the past 50 years. Subsequently, we reflect on current challenges and speculate about the future. Finally, we comment on the potential for convergence of developments in GIS and spatial data analysis under the rubric of geographic information science (GIScience).
ISSN:1056-8190
1435-5957
DOI:10.1007/s10110-003-0190-y