Talk:Spatial analysis

Hey all
My recent edits have been designed to make the page much more general than it previously was. That said each section now will need a lot of work.

The history: I would like to make this more comprehensive. Hopefully this will become a list with the important conceptual contributions made by each field organized as sub lists.

Fundamental issues: This also needs a reorganization, synching with the related topic elsewhere on the paedia and a whole bunch of references.

Techniques: This is the holy grail: to come up with a good characterization of the technqiues. I personally do the following:


 * non-spatial vs. spatial then


 * qualtiative (Verbal) vs. quantiative then


 * evaluative versus modelling then


 * both split by atemporal/temporal, by spatial only/ with attribute, and by spatial dimension

with 'evaluative' being where statistical analyses live, 'spatial' being of the geometry and therefore split by dimension of the geometry. This will all make more sense with an eventual diagram.

Hope that highlights where I'm headed with these edits,

Acuster 12:26, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps you would like to look at the Geostatistics article. There are many things that need to be added there, and it could be a good compliment to this page. SCmurky 03:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)==Geo-space== A user recently edited this article to replace every instance of geo-space and geospatial, declaring them "neologisms". At least for geospatial this appears to have been unnecessary but I am not familiar enough with the field to suggest that these changes should be reverted. 75.41.110.200 (talk) 13:19, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Merger
Geospatial analysis here. fgnievinski (talk) 03:06, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 22:13, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

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Reorganize!
This page has a lot of good content, but it is organized very poorly. It was appropriate to merge geospatial analysis here, but it isn't at all integrated and has a lot of duplication. I'd like to take a crack at it, but some of this is outside my expertise.

One discussion question. There has been some debate over the years over whether "spatial analysis" should include GIS geoprocessing (overlay, buffers, suitability, etc.) or only spatial statistics. I'm in the former camp, but will people be upset if this page contains a lot of GIS content? Bplewe (talk) 03:54, 20 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Spatial analysis is not limited to spatial statistics, and many of the GIS terms are for tasks used by spatial analysts and have analog equivalents. For example, overlays, and buffers can be done with transparency sheets, and a Compass (drawing tool). I doubt there are many people who do spatial analysis without GIS, and many fewer who would get upset about including the software tools used to do the tasks. Go for it! GeogSage  ( ⚔Chat?⚔ ) 03:30, 21 June 2024 (UTC)