distance that can measured with a standard unit of length, such as a mile or kilometer
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Absolute Location
the exact position of an object or place, measured within a spatial coordinates of a grid system
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Aggregation
come together into a mass, sum, or whole
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Azimuthal Projection
map projection in which the plane in the most developable surface
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Breaking Point
the outer edge of a city's influence, used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of a city's hinterlands that depend on that depend on that city for its retail supplies
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Choropleth Map
thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values per unit areas
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Anthropogenic
Human-induced changes on the natural environment
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Complementary
The actual or potential relationship between two places, usually referring to economic interactions
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Fuller Projection
A type of map projection that maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses but completely rearranges direction such that the four cardinal no longer have any meaning
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Dot Maps
thematic maps that use points to use to show the precise locations of specific observations or occurrences, such as crimes, or births
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Idiographic
Pertaining to the unique facts or characteristics of a particular place
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Isoline
A map line that connects points of equal or very similar values
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Geoid
The actual shape of Earth
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Distance Decay Effect
decrease in interaction between two phenomena, places, or people as the distance between them increases
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Nomothetic
Concepts or rules that can be applied universally
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Peters Projections
An equal-area projection
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Ptolemy
Roman geographer-astronomer, author of Guide to Geography, which included maps containing a grid system of latitude and longitude
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Robinson Projection
A project that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It does not maintain shape, distance, or direction completely accurately, but it minimizes errors in each.
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Spatial Diffusion
Ways in which phenomena, such as technological innovations, cultural trends, or even outbreaks of disease, travel over space
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Spatial Perspective
An intellectual framework that looks at the particular locations of a specific phenomenon , how and why that phenomenon is where it is, and how it is spatially related to phenomena in other places
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Transferability
Use sophisticated software to create dynamic computer maps, some of which are three dimensional
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Robinson Projection
projection that attempts to balance several possible projection errors. It doesn't maintain shape, distance, or direction completely accurately, but minimizes errors
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