Goodchild, Michael; Haining, Robert - In: Papers in Regional Science 83 (2003) 1, pp. 363-385
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 … potential for convergence of developments in GIS and spatial data analysis under the rubric of geographic information science …